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chef d'oeuvre
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synonyms: pièce de résistance, magnum opus, tour de force, ~ne plus ultra, ~nonpareil ???
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Definition:a masterpiece
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also spelled chef-d'œuvre
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Her tone was icy. “Monsieur l’artiste,” she said. “You have neglected an important feature of your chef d’oeuvre.” She opened the drawer of her desk and took out the sheet of paper with the drawing on it and smoothed it with a rasping noise on the blotter of the desk top. “It is lacking a signature. [...]"
Irwin Shaw. Rich Man, Poor Man (1959)
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And that morning Colonel Michaud had ridden round the Drissa fortifications with the Emperor and had pointed out to him that this fortified camp constructed by Pfuel, and till then considered a chef-d’oeuvre of tactical science which would ensure Napoleon’s destruction, was an absurdity, threatening the destruction of the Russian army.Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace.
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What is one to make of Eyes Wide Shut? Is this the chef-d'oeuvre, the pièce de résistance if you will, of this legendary cinematic auteur?
Dave Barry. Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down, p.132 (2000)
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