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mistresspiece

mistresspiece noun: a work by a woman that exhibits outstanding creativity, skill or cleverness.

Noun

mistresspiece (plural mistresspieces)

  1. A work by a woman that exhibits outstanding creativity, skill or cleverness.
    • This Herb is Venus’s Miſtreſs[-]piece, and is as gallant and univerſal Medicine for all Diſeaſes coming of Heat, whereſoever they be, or in what Part of the Body ſoever they be, as the Sun ſhines upon; […]1752, Nich. Culpepper, The English Physician Enlarged With Three Hundred and Sixty-Nine Medicines, Made of English Herbs, That were not in any Impression until This, London: for S. Ballard, R. Ware...
    • I am not about to wax eloquent or magniloquent—a very different style of thing—on the subject of galleries of art. For in that case I should be obliged to say much of the master-pieces and mistress-pieces of all the collections of all the countries on the face of the earth.1836, “On Galleries in General, and on the Ladies’ Gallery in Particular”, in The Court Magazine, Containing Original Papers, by Distinguished Writers, and Finely Engraved Portraits, Landscapes, and...

Examples of mistresspiece in a sentence

  • Bored stiff with these masterpieces and mistresspieces I wrote this book, partly for money to pay for the feed of my wife, my horses, myself, and partly for fun.1923, Frederick Niven, The Wolfer:
  • Exhibit one: the cover of Roxy Music’s For Your Pleasure, 1973. / The cover image is a mistresspiece of ambivalence.2018, Mark Fisher, Simon Reynolds (foreword), edited by Darren Ambrose, K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher from...

Forms of mistresspiece

pluralmistresspieces

Origin of mistresspiece

From mistress + piece, by analogy with masterpiece.

Questions about mistresspiece

What does mistresspiece mean?
Mistresspiece means a work by a woman that exhibits outstanding creativity, skill or cleverness.
How do you use mistresspiece in a sentence?
Bored stiff with these masterpieces and mistresspieces I wrote this book, partly for money to pay for the feed of my wife, my horses, myself, and partly for fun.
What part of speech is mistresspiece?
Mistresspiece is a noun.
What is the plural of mistresspiece?
The plural of mistresspiece is mistresspieces.

Words near mistresspiece in the dictionary

  1. mistressly
  2. mistressmind
  3. mistressminded
  4. mistressminding
  5. mistressminds
  6. mistresspiece
  7. mistresspieces
  8. mistressship
  9. mistressships
  10. mistressy
  11. Mistretta

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