Placed at the center of something (as on a table)

Usage examples of centrepiece.

I had agreed the deal with Patrick Evans and checked the share ownership certificate, which showed him to be the sole owner, with sixty-four-sixty-fourths of the shares, I had pictures taken of the catamaran, some with the sails up, others of the saloon with the table laid, a vase of wild flowers and a large Balearic crayfish as the centrepiece.

The Runestaff, too, centrepiece of the drama, was beginning to exert its influence upon the players.

Wicklow lamb, Irish salmon, loads of lobster, mussels, we could have a centrepiece of Irish shellfish.

Please, please, let me get this position, she prayed silently, a little while later, to any deity who might be listening as she stood in the wonderfully cool shade of the trees that formed the centrepiece of the square of elegant white houses and retied the strings of her bonnet and straightened her shawl.

The ceiling was high and ornate, but there was no chandelier, only sconces between the panelled walls, casting a glow over the carpet underfoot and the heavy, carved oak table, bare save for a centrepiece of chrysanthemums.

The dashboard was filled with every kind of gaudy religious icon imaginable, the centrepiece being a barebreasted madonna with a pale green wobbly head that looked suspiciously as if it might glow in the dark.

Sanglier, centrepiece of the overall impression of power, politely rose at last, but remained behind the desk while Claudine completed her pilgrimage.

At one time, the centrepiece of the whole Plaza had been a very large and very heroic statue of the previous president.

After that, though, the work inexplicably stopped and the centrepiece remained, from then on.

Usually, there was dancing by the river bank as well as in the huge rococo Rotunda, the principal attraction and centrepiece of the gardens, used for a variety of entertainments and promenading.

As a centrepiece to the table there was a magnificent array of the fruits of the country on golden trays, the most magnificent of which was curiously wrought in a pattern of vine leaves of exquisite design.

In the middle of the snowy white damask cloth stood a centrepiece of gilded silver, consisting of two cherubs holding up a great dish on which reclined a pair of lovers in classical dress.

Among the trees the servants had set up table after table of food: sliced spiced meats, cheeses, fresh bread by the chunk and stale bread turned into puddings, pickled vegetables in the Bardek manner, roasted glazed larks and squabs, and as a centrepiece an entire roast boar.

By-and-by he takes a turn or two under the centrepiece, and finally settles on the ceiling.

Crouch, sitting within yards of the bed, could see the centrepiece was a heart set with pointed diamonds:around the heart and attached to it by foliated gilt wire were crystal plaques, each bearing an angel's head, bewinged and carved in onyx:the plaque below the point of the heart was joined to it by a scroll, and on the scroll in diamonds were the initial letters H and D, entwined.