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piece de resistance

piece de resistance is the alternative form of pièce de résistance.

Meaning of pièce de résistance

Noun

pièce de résistance (plural pièces de résistance)

  1. A masterpiece; the most memorable accomplishment of one’s career or lifetime.
    • The pièce de résistance was the workbench, easily a hundred years old.2026 April 24, Robert Klose, “Fix my watch, tell me a story”, in The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, Massachusetts: Christian Science Publishing Society, →ISSN, →OCLC
  2. The chief dish at a dinner.
    • Our pièce de résistance was a traditional preparation of poularde de Bresse en vessie: an entire chicken, stuffed with truffles and foie, steamed inside an inflated pig’s bladder in a bath of liquor and still more truffles.2023, C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 30

Forms of piece de resistance

pluralpieces de resistance

Questions about piece de resistance

What is piece de resistance the alternative form of?
Piece de resistance is the alternative form of pièce de résistance.

Words near piece de resistance in the dictionary

  1. piece bag
  2. piece bags
  3. piece broker
  4. piece brokers
  5. piece by piece
  6. piece de resistance
  7. piece goods
  8. piece of art
  9. piece of ass
  10. piece of cake
  11. piece of clothing

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