Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A masterpiece, especially in literature or art.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A masterpiece; a superlatively fine work in art, literature, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A masterpiece; a capital work in art, literature, etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the most outstanding work of a creative artist or craftsman
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In 1974, only a couple of years after Kubrick abandoned "Napoleon" to the snows of time, Burgess wrote a novel, "The Napoleon Symphony," that might have been devised as a reproach to Kubrick for never calling him to enliven his unmade chef-d'oeuvre.
How Stanley Kubrick Met His Waterloo Frederic Raphael 2011
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Unfortunately, their chef-d'oeuvre wasn't that good.
It wasn't that bad holiday with parents Pt.1 Jerine 2009
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Unfortunately, their chef-d'oeuvre wasn't that good.
Archive 2009-01-01 Jerine 2009
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For many, "In Cold Blood" -- in which he sacrificed facts on the altar of art and showed less empathy for the victims than for their murderers -- is his chef-d'oeuvre.
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Seen from a view of posterity, her "boring" job was to provide Julia Child with the discipline, the autonomous organizational skill, the patience to devise, test and perfect the recipes in her encyclopedic chef-d'oeuvre: "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" (1961, 1970), on which her immortality can be said to rest.
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Seen from a view of posterity, her "boring" job was to provide Julia Child with the discipline, the autonomous organizational skill, the patience to devise, test and perfect the recipes in her encyclopedic chef-d'oeuvre
Julia Child: The OSS Years Noël Riley Fitch 2008
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He explains that each pitch typically lasts two to three minutes before judges either pull the ripcord on the stammering pathetic loser and his harebrained scheme, or persevere with the kook's chef-d'oeuvre.
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He explains that each pitch typically lasts two to three minutes before judges either pull the ripcord on the stammering pathetic loser and his harebrained scheme, or persevere with the kook's chef-d'oeuvre.
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No doubt we can admire the architectonic structure of these systems aesthetically, as we would un chef-d'oeuvre de l'art.
METAPHYSICAL IMAGINATION MICHAEL MORAN 1968
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Le drame, l'épopée savante, l'élégie attestent aujourd'hui encore la puissance et la souplesse de ce magnifique génie; seul entre les disciples de Sarasvatî [the goddess of eloquence], il a eu le bonheur de produire un chef-d'oeuvre vraiment classique, où l'Inde s'admire et où l'humanité se reconnaît.
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