Crossword clues for centerpiece
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Centerpiece \Cen"ter*piece`\, Centrepiece \Cen"tre*piece`\, n.
An ornament to be placed in the center, as of a table, ceiling, atc.; a central article or figure.
the central or most important feature of an activity, plan, or object; as, the centerpiece of her campaign was a proposal to slash taxes.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (standard spelling of centrepiece from=American spelling English)
WordNet
n. the central or most important feature; "education was the centerpiece of the Democratic Party's political platform" [syn: centrepiece]
something placed at the center of something else (as on a table) [syn: centrepiece]
Wikipedia
Centerpiece is a 1958 jazz standard, usually performed in a swing style. It was written by Harry Edison and Jon Hendricks.
The song is a love song, with the lyrics indicating that the singer feels incomplete without his lover. Each of the two verses ends with the couplet:
But nothing's any good without you Cause baby you're my centerpieceUsage examples of "centerpiece".
His rapt gaze took in the flamboyant spread of food and drink, then moved upward past the bank of flowers to the centerpiece, and he wondered what significance there might be in an unsculptured square pillar of ice.
Atherton was the kind of woman who kept candles out for a centerpiece with the cellophane still wrapped around them.
There was enough raw metal in this machine to form the centerpiece and the first ring.
They had reached the wall and both men looked toward the centerpiece in the field.
The overall lighting was dim, enhancing the startling vividness of the centerpiece with its bank of flo less-than xllights and dramatic single searchlight, which gave the tree and its upper branches a peculiar flatness against the night sky.
He drew nearer to the centerpiece, the bright lights causing his eyes to narrow.
The head of the procession had reached the centerpiece and Bishop Caines was mounting the steps, smiling down at the invalids spread out on blankets and in wheelchairs below.
The centerpiece collapsed, all those sprawled on its surface falling in toward the heart of the fire.
Four trees composed the centerpiece of this place, each over a thousand feet tall, and a hundred and fifty in diameter.
Yet the clearing was not the relief they sought, for it was but a vacuum for greater things: behind them the mighty trees and before them the centerpiece of the mountain range --- a peak of stone that tapered upward until it became a jagged spire that pierced the very bowels of heaven.
Abigail trotted toward the grassy island in the middle of the street, which held that mandatory southern town centerpiece, the Civil War monument.
He lives by his credo, which is to make the customer the centerpiece of all his efforts.
The centerpiece of the room was the massive, roll-top desk situated between the two front windows overlooking the village green.
Several overstuffed chairs clustered around the centerpiece of the room, a small mahogany piano whose top was piled with music books.
The centerpiece of the house was the Christmas tree decorated with ornaments Mary had fashioned from ribbon and tinsel Len had given her from the store.