Crossword clues for showpiece
showpiece
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. Something that exhibits exceptional quality, something worth being shown.
WordNet
n. the outstanding item (the prize piece or main exhibit) in a collection [syn: collector's item, piece de resistance]
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 Hill Park in Victoria, British Columbia is considered a showpiece garden.
:* The Green Mountain College organic garden with many heirloom plantings has become a campus showpiece.
- A performance or composition which provides an opportunity for the display of a particular skill:
:* 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:
:* In 1994, choreographer Jerome Robbins created a showpiece for the School of American Ballet based on composer Johann Sebastian Bach's Two and Three Part Inventions.
- In the satiric sense, a showpiece is a charade, a mockery, an empty or absurd pretense.
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).