archaeologue

plural archaeologues · alternative obsolete archæologue · alternative archeologue

1. historicalAn antiquarian; an archaeologist.

   Shortly after Slade passed through Thessaloniki the French archaeologue Charles Texier appeared in the city in the course of his related travels in Asia Minor (ca. 1833-1837).

   1984, The Church of the Holy Apostles in Thessaloniki: A Study in Early Palaeologan Architecture, page 45

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   Its real significance lies in the body of innumerable obscure details which collectively constitute its spirit; and when that has perished, not the most arduous researches of historians and archaeologues, nor the most inspired syntheses of literary and pictorial artists can evoke more than an approximation of what was.

   1920, The Architect and Engineer, page 43

   In its lower stories, the chapter house is much simpler in detail than the church, leading nineteenth-century archaeologues to attribute it to the Romanesque, or “Norman,” period.

   1983, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, page 27