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 demonstrates one's 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.
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