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- noun Plural form of
showpiece .
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Examples
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"Don Giovanni" can seem like a grab bag of showpieces, but Messrs.
Ladies' Man Heidi Waleson 2011
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Johann Sebastian Bach compiled what are today called the Brandenburg Concertos as showpieces and probable calling cards for employment with the Margrave of Brandenburg.
Rodney Punt: The Brandenburgs Are Their Brand: LACO's Six Concertos of J.S. Bach Rodney Punt 2011
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Salvatore Sciarrino's Six Caprices are ambitious, virtuosic showpieces.
How a young Kazakh violinist dared to take on Sciarrino's Caprices – and won Tom Service 2010
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Without wasting half the budget on ill-acted chit-chat and scenario manufacture, the biggest showpieces always open, rather than close, the Final Destination movies: you get exactly what you paid for, immediately.
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It names the Rising Tide Bar as one of its showpieces – an elliptical restaurant platform accommodating 50 customers that ascends and descends a vertical distance of 32 feet (10 meters) between the central park and promenade.
Allure Of The Seas, World's Largest Cruise Ship, Debuts Friday (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post/AP 2010
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Susie Bubble: Paris is probably where people bring out their most 'impressive' outfits -- new season stuff, showpieces.
Meredith Barnett: Style Bubble's Susie Lau Preps for Paris Fashion Week Meredith Barnett 2011
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If government money is involved, they're primarily showpieces.
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What's especially remarkable is that the arrangements serve as imaginative recastings of classic and offbeat Strayhorniana as well as trumpet showpieces for the leader.
Classic Sounds Will Friedwald 2011
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We consider the following five films to be fascinating noir showpieces that have become eclipsed, somewhat, by the fame of their better-known (and, admittedly, better-made) contemporaries.
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It names the Rising Tide Bar as one of its showpieces – an elliptical restaurant platform accommodating 50 customers that ascends and descends a vertical distance of 32 feet (10 meters) between the central park and promenade.
Allure Of The Seas, World's Largest Cruise Ship, Debuts Friday (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post/AP 2010
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