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French.
1.
the works of a writer, painter, or the like, taken as a whole.
2.
any one of the works of a writer, painter, or the like.
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oeuvre
(œvrə)
—
n
1.
a work of art, literature, music, etc
2.
the total output of a writer, painter, etc
[ultimately from Latin
opera,
plural of
opus
work]
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Word Origin & History
oeuvre
"a work," esp. a work of literature, also "the body of work produced by an artist," 1875, from Fr. oeuvre "work," from L. opera (see
opus
).
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Example sentences
And yet, nothing could be more fraudulent than the idea of a homogeneous
oeuvre
with a single name attached to it.
These days, he cycles selections from his vast
oeuvre
in and out of circulation.
If the book is judged deficient, cite a successful example along the same lines, from the author's
oeuvre
or elsewhere.
The entire
oeuvre
of the machine had been executed in private sessions with the
company's team.
And his
oeuvre
didn't exactly get less sensational or surreal from there.
No definitive account of his photographic
oeuvre
exists, either.
Artists' personalities are important to the marketability of their
oeuvre
.
Slight as his
oeuvre
had been, it proved impossible to forget.
It really should be the
oeuvre
of the photographers who shot her.
Before he became a pop artist, he had an
oeuvre
of representational painting that anyone could appreciate.
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