Showpiece

<noinclude> </noinclude> A showpiece is:

• An accomplishment which is worthy of display and admiration:

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

• An outstanding example of a type:

* Beacon Hill Park in Victoria, British Columbia is considered a showpiece garden.

* The Green Mountain College organic garden with many heirloom plantings has become a campus showpiece.

• 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.

• In baking, a chocolate or sugar sculpture.
• In the satiric sense, a showpiece is a charade, a mockery, an empty or absurd pretense.

See also

• Pièce de résistance
• Showcase (disambiguation)

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