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Very fine specimen
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showpiece
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the outstanding item (the prize piece or main exhibit) in a collection [syn: collector's item , piece de resistance ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ He built the casino as the showpiece of his business empire. ▪ The school's showpiece is its respected teacher-training program. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Country houses that substantially retain their contents and collections ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ." An outstanding example of a type: :* Beacon ...
Usage examples of showpiece.
On the other hand, to give people like Guerrero, Lucas, and even Angers their due, they had an ideal of their ownthey wanted Ciudad de Vados to continue as it had begun, a showpiece of the Western Hemisphere and the kind of place they had envisaged when it was founded.
Twenty freed humans, rebels who had been smuggled from the new battleground on Ix, sat in the front rows as showpieces.
She waggled a finger at the western sky and a constellation I had never seen before appeareda great snaky showpiece twisted into the rough approximation of a figure eight, glowing with a multicolored mass of gemlike stars.
Some people say that the American is fouling his own image in South America -- that instead of being a showpiece for "democracy," he not only tends to ape the wealthy, antidemocratic Latins, but sometimes beats them at their own game.
Usually a head of a chamber of commerce would need a showpiece astronaut to attend a reception and shake hands and pose for pictures and spread goodwill.
It was a craftsman's showpiece: oak floorboards joined solid as steel, walls of plaster seamless as marble, the sculpted newel posts and banisters, arched alcoves (built into the walls to hold, presumably, Catholic icons).