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Definition of Showpiece
1. Noun. The outstanding item (the prize piece or main exhibit) in a collection.
Generic synonyms: Curio, Curiosity, Oddity, Oddment, Peculiarity, Rarity
Specialized synonyms: Rariora
Definition of Showpiece
1. Noun. Something that exhibits exceptional quality, something worth being shown. ¹
2. Noun. Something made specifically to be displayed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Showpiece
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Showpiece
Literary usage of Showpiece
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Reconfiguration of Political Order in Africa: A Case Study of North Kivu by Denis M. Tull (2005)
"423 "Rebel-Held Territory to Be 'showpiece'", BBC Monitoring, 1 Sept. 1998.
24 The urban population is estimated to have doubled since 1984 (12.4 percent), ..."
2. Cavendish by Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach (1996)
"... giving the grains and carats and physical descriptions of all the coins, reign
by reign, was a showpiece of quantitative work in historical scholarship. ..."
3. Cavendish by Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach (1996)
"... giving the grains and carats and physical descriptions of all the coins, reign
by reign, was a showpiece of quantitative work in historical scholarship. ..."
4. Cavendish by Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach (1996)
"... reign by reign, was a showpiece of quantitative work in historical scholarship.33 As
we have seen, De Moivre counted among his friends a good many ..."
5. The Wayward Welfare State by Roger A. Freeman (1981)
"Intended to be a showpiece of what public housing could be at its best—it won an
award of the American Insitute of Architects—it demonstrated what public ..."
6. The History of Modern Painting by Richard Muther (1896)
"In 1878 he horrified the world by his " Awakening of One supposed to be Dead,"
a showpiece painted with great anatomical ability, and in 1885 in Paris he ..."
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