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- centre + piece (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I hear the centrepiece is a Texan writer who will descend and will be recognised instantly as the messiah in baby form, with a little cherub’s wings and pink lipstick.”
“The centrepiece is a rally on Saturday against the building of a large, domed mosque, with two 55m (177ft) minarets, in the city’s heavily immigrant Ehrenfeld district.”
“The centrepiece was the world premiere of Stunt Doubles, a three-movement work by Gordon McPherson b 1965.”
The Guardian: LPO/Jurowski; Betrothal in a Monastery; Psappha ensemble; SCO/Ticciati – review
“The centrepiece is a scale model referencing the English physicist Michael Faraday, baroque music and local butterflies; it consists of a mechanical flower cutter, triggered by a recording of Bach to cut a maze in a bed of genetically modified pansies.”
“I have to admit, that the baby pear plonked on top in a garish imitation of a centrepiece was my kitschy idea and it made me burst into hysterical laughter.”
“The centrepiece is a domed structure with 300 feet high columns crowned with carved elephants, watching over the statues of all three Dalit icons.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“There are 16 new gallery spaces in the restored Victorian building, but the centrepiece is the Grand Gallery, a four-storey, 18-metre high display of over 800 objects.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“My centrepiece is a slow-roasted goose, its richness cut with brandy and tomatoes.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“The centrepiece is a captivating installation called Ttéia "Web", nine semi-transparent rectangular prisms.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“The centrepiece will be a collection of models made by the great British modernist sculptor Barbara Hepworth, who was born in Wakefield in 1903.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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