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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.
^"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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