Showpiece

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A showpiece is:

An accomplishment which is worthy of display and admiration:

English Wikipedia's 1,000,000th qualified article,^[1] Jordanhill railway station, was called a "showpiece of parallel collaboration."^[2]

An outstanding example of a type:

Beacon Hill Park in Victoria, British Columbia is considered a showpiece garden.^[3]
The Green Mountain College organic garden with many heirloom plantings has become a campus showpiece.^[4]

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.^[5]

In the satiric sense, a showpiece is a charade, a mockery, an empty or absurd pretense.

See also

References

^ "English Wikipedia Publishes Millionth Article". Wikimedia Foundation press release. 1 March 2006.
^ "Wikipedia (English) Hits 1,000,000 articles". 1 March 2006.
^ "Beacon Hill Park". Vancouver Island Campgrounds & Parks. Archived from the original on 2006-11-25.
^ "Organic Garden". Green Mountain College Map. Archived from the original on 2006-09-02.
^ Laura Jacobs. "Jerome Robbins, 1918-1998". The New Criterion Vol. 17, No. 1, September 1998.

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