Showpiece
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A showpiece is:
- An accomplishment which is worthy of display and admiration:
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- English Wikipedia's 1,000,000th qualified article,[1] Jordanhill railway station, was called a "showpiece of parallel collaboration."[2]
- An outstanding example of a type:
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- Beacon Hill Park in Victoria, British Columbia is considered a showpiece garden.[3]
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- The Green Mountain College organic garden with many heirloom plantings has become a campus showpiece.[4]
- A performance or composition which provides an opportunity for the display of a particular skill:
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- The Dying Swan was ballerina Anna Pavlova's showpiece.
- Luciano Berio's Sequenza XII is a showpiece for bassoon.
- A work of art or theatrical production presented for exhibition:
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- 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.[5]
- In the satiric sense, a showpiece is a charade, a mockery, an empty or absurd pretense.
[edit] References
- ^ English Wikipedia Publishes Millionth Article. Wikimedia Foundation press release (1 March 2006).
- ^ Wikipedia (English) Hits 1,000,000 articles (1 March 2006).
- ^ Beacon Hill Park. Vancouver Island Campgrounds & Parks.
- ^ Organic Garden. Green Mountain College Map.
- ^ Laura Jacobs. Jerome Robbins, 1918-1998. The New Criterion Vol. 17, No. 1, September 1998.
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