Showpiece

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A Showpiece is:

• An accomplishment which is worthy of display and admiration:
  • English Wikipedia's 1,000,000th qualified article, Jordanhill railway station, was called a "showpiece of parallel collaboration." [1]

• An outstanding example of a type:
  • Beacon Hill Park in Victoria, British Columbia is considered a showpiece garden. [2]
  • At environmentally focused Green Mountain College, the organic garden with its many Heirloom plantings is a campus showpiece. [3]

• A performance which provides an opportunity for the display of a particular skill:
  • Luciano Berio's Sequenza XII is a showpiece composition for bassoon.
  • The Dying Swan was ballerina Anna Pavlova's showpiece.

• A work of art or theatrical production presented for exhibition:
  • In 1994, Choreographer Jerome Robbins created a showpiece for the School of American Ballet based on composer Johan Sebastian Bach's Two and Three Part Inventions. [4]

• In the satiric sense, a charade, a mockery, an empty or absurd pretense.

[edit] See also

• Centerpiece
• Collector's item [5]
• Pièce de résistance
• Pièce maîtresse [6]
• Showcase [7]