Showpiece

A showpiece is:

• An accomplishment which is worthy of display and admiration:

• English Wikipedia's 1,000,000th qualified article,^[1] Jordanhill railway station, was called a "showpiece of parallel collaboration."^[2]

• An outstanding example of a type:

• Beacon Hill Park in Victoria, British Columbia is considered a showpiece garden.^[3]
• The Green Mountain College organic garden with many heirloom plantings has become a campus showpiece.^[4]

• A performance or composition which provides an opportunity for the display of a particular 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.^[5]

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

See also

• Pièce de résistance
• Showcase (disambiguation)

References

1. "English Wikipedia Publishes Millionth Article". Wikimedia Foundation press release. 1 March 2006.
2. "Wikipedia (English) Hits 1,000,000 articles". 1 March 2006.
3. "Beacon Hill Park". Vancouver Island Campgrounds & Parks.
4. "Organic Garden". Green Mountain College Map.
5. Laura Jacobs. "Jerome Robbins, 1918-1998". The New Criterion Vol. 17, No. 1, September 1998.