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oeu·vre

[œ-vruh]
noun, plural oeu·vres [œ-vruh] . 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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  • And his oeuvre didn't exactly get less sensational or surreal from there.
  • And, by the way, the oeuvre exists outside our own interpretations.
  • Slight as his oeuvre had been, it proved impossible to forget.
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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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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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