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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
oeuvre
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hors d'oeuvre
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As part of the oeuvre of a distinguished practitioner?
▪ Hewanted his whole oeuvre to be seen from A to Z without any cuts.
▪ His oeuvre consisted almost entirely of small houses.
▪ His entire oeuvre as a photographer fits into a period of 18 short years.
▪ Nearly 30 years on, Faithless testifies to the awesome fertility of his oeuvre.
▪ Nimbus should be strongly encouraged to embark on the complete oeuvre of Gotschalk with Alan Marks.
▪ This explains why Minton was so fascinated by portraits which during his time at Allen Street more or less dominated his oeuvre.
▪ This migrant painting is hardly the first in the Tucson painter's political oeuvre.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
oeuvre

"a work," especially a work of literature, also "the body of work produced by an artist," 1875, from French oeuvre "work" (12c.), from Latin opera (see opus).

Wiktionary
oeuvre

n. 1 A work of art. 2 The complete body of an artist's work.

WordNet
oeuvre

n. the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it); "he studied the entire Wagnerian oeuvre"; "Picasso's work can be divided into periods" [syn: work, body of work]

Wikipedia
Oeuvre

Oeuvre(s) or Œuvre(s) may refer to:

  • A work of art; or, more commonly, the complete body of such works by a particular creator

Usage examples of "oeuvre".

This is made to read: 'Qui, comme de raison, avait saintement forme le projet d'allier les interets du ciel aux oeuvres de ce monde.

On decerne la palme du genie a l'artiste grec qui a su resoudre le plus delicat des problemes, orner le corps humain, c'est a orner la perfection meme, et l'on ne veut voir qu'une affaire de chiffons dans l'essai de collaborer a la plus belle oeuvre de Dieu, a la beaute de la femme!

Then during the post-meet mixer and dance Pemulis's defaulted opponent ate from the hors d' oeuvres table without using utensils or at one point even hands, did a disco number when there wasn't any music going, and was finally heard telling the Port Washington Headmaster's wife that he'd always wanted to do her from behind.

For instance, in company, Ally could no longer get away with showing off his encyclopedic knowledge of Woody Allen scripts or De Niro's oeuvre, because she knew he also had an encyclopedic knowledge of South Park scripts and Van Damme's oeuvre.