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
It was a series of "concerts" which brought out, as it were, the pièces de résistance.
From The Land of Nome A narrative sketch of the rush to our Bering Sea gold-fields, the country, its mines and its people, and the history of a great conspiracy (1900-1901) by Lanier McKee
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
Figs, no longer posing as a pastime of the palate, were accepted seriously as pièces de résistance.
From The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes by Israel Zangwill
