pièce de résistance
noun
the principal dish of a meal.
pièces de résistance
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pluralof pièce de résistance.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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His pièces de résistance are 10 5-by-10-foot panels painted as a fresco on a prison wall — an impossible-to-remove item, or so it would seem.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2022
The pièces de résistance are the tires: enormous white Thick Bricks, a good deal bigger than the average balloon tire and a lot more eye-catching.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2012
These pièces de résistance in their different stages of hot, cold, and warmed over, carried them well along through the week, and, supplemented with an occasional chop or steak, served very well.
From Clover by Susan Coolidge
The vistas from the three courts towards the bay are the pièces de résistance of the whole thing.
From The Art of the Exposition by Eugen Neuhaus
I have a tender remembrance of a few which were our pièces de résistance when we "dressed up" either for charades or one of Miss Corner's plays—"in my young days."
From The Peace Egg and Other tales by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
