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chef-d'oeuvre

[ French she-dœ-vruh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural chefs-d'oeu·vre [she-, dœ, -v, r, uh].

chef-d'oeuvre

/ ʃɛdœvrə /

Borrowed into English from French around 1610–20

It is indeed a masterpiece—a chef-d'oeuvre—beauty and expression unequaled.

The grisette from a certain point of view is the chef-d'oeuvre of Parisian industry; the bouquet of Parisian civilization.

Bertie was executing his chef d'oeuvre in the delineation of Mrs. Proudie's nose and mouth.

To Field's mind, it only suggested the grotesque, and his reproduction was a chef d'oeuvre, as he was wont to say.

Whilst I was drawing this chef d'oeuvre (and, by the way, it took an hour to do it) Ballantyne came in.

April 18, 2024petrichor

[pet-ri-kawr]

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