Showpiece

Showpiece

A showpiece is:

* An accomplishment which is worthy of display and admiration::* English Wikipedia's 1,000,000th qualified article,cite web |url= http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/English_Wikipedia_Publishes_Millionth_Article |title= English Wikipedia Publishes Millionth Article |work= Wikimedia Foundation press release |date= 1 March 2006 |quote= ] Jordanhill railway station, was called a "showpiece" of parallel collaboration."cite web |url= http://blog.phpdoc.info/archives/34-Wikipedia-English-Hits-1,000,000-articles.html |title= Wikipedia (English) Hits 1,000,000 articles |date= 1 March 2006 |quote= ]

* An outstanding example of a type::* Beacon Hill Park in Victoria, British Columbia is considered a "showpiece" garden.cite web |url= http://www.victoriabc.com/main.php4?area=10 |title= Beacon Hill Park |work= Vancouver Island Campgrounds & Parks |quote= ] :* The Green Mountain College organic garden with many heirloom plantings has become a campus "showpiece."cite web |url= http://www.greenmtn.edu/campustour/index.asp |title= Organic Garden |work= Green Mountain College Map |quote= ]
* 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 Johan Sebastian Bach's "Two and Three Part Inventions."cite web |url= http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/17/sept98/jacobs.htm |title= Jerome Robbins, 1918-1998 |author= Laura Jacobs |work= The New Criterion Vol. 17, No. 1, September 1998 |quote= ]
* In the satiric sense, a "showpiece" is a charade, a mockery, an empty or absurd pretense.

References

ee also

* Pièce de résistance
* Showcase


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