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master class

noun

  1. a small class for advanced students, especially a class in performance skills conducted by a distinguished musician.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of master class1

First recorded in 1950–55

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Example Sentences

Remember his master class of the speech on the Obama record at the 2012 Democratic Convention.

At a brisk, 90 minutes, Gravity is a master class not just in technical achievement, but in judicious editing.

The painting of the bird alone is a master class in technique.

He gave a master class in poetry Friday, as the killers were preparing to do their worst.

Plus, her handling of the situation is a master class in damage control.

In the case of the master class, these results are the making of the rich fewer and the remaining few richer.

But being landless and moneyless they were dependent for employment on the old master class.

Our present public school system is candidly based on training a dominant master class.

It means that in the aggregate the Master Class have deprived us of more than twenty years of liberty.

Therefore there is a certain amount of tautology in denouncing the "master class" for its monstrous abuses.

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