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oeu·vre

 (œ′vrə)
n. pl. oeu·vres (œ′vrə)
1. A work of art.
2. The sum of the lifework of an artist, writer, or composer.
[French œuvre, from Old French uevre, work, from Latin opera, from pl. of opus, work; see opus.]
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oeuvre

(œvrə)
n
1. a work of art, literature, music, etc
2. the total output of a writer, painter, etc
[ultimately from Latin opera, plural of opus work]
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oeu•vre

(Fr. ˈœ vrə)

n., pl. oeu•vres (Fr. ˈœ vrə)
1. the works of a writer, painter, or the like, taken as a whole.
2. any one of such works.
[1870–75; < French: work, Old French < Latin opera; compare operate]
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oeuvre

A French word meaning work, used to mean a work of art or all of the works created by a particular artist.
Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.oeuvre - the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it); "he studied the entire Wagnerian oeuvre"; "Picasso's work can be divided into periods"
body of work, work
end product, output - final product; the things produced
writing - (usually plural) the collected work of an author; "the idea occurs with increasing frequency in Hemingway's writings"
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Translations

oeuvre

[ˈʒːvrə] N → obra f
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They have not even a cathedral, with eleven tons of solid silver archbishops in the back room; and they do not show you any moldy buildings that are seven thousand years old; nor any smoke-dried old fire-screens which are chef d'oeuvres of Reubens or Simpson, or Titian or Ferguson, or any of those parties; and they haven't any bottled fragments of saints, and not even a nail from the true cross.
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Roast partridges, flanked with quails and flanking a larded leveret; boiled fowls; hams, fried and sprinkled with white wine, cardons of Guipuzcoa and la bisque ecrevisses : these, together with soups and hors d'oeuvres , constituted the governor's bill of fare.
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On the back were visible in large letters Oeuvres de Bon-Bon.
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There was a tradition in the club that the hors d'oeuvres should be various and manifold to the point of madness.
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"Yes, a chef d'oeuvre of the great Florentine sculptor, Benvenuto Cellini," replied Athos.
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Somewhat later another Frenchman, named Fontenelle, wrote `The Plurality of Worlds,' a chef-d'oeuvre of its time.
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The travelers could distinguish clearly cones, central hills, remarkable positions of the soil, naturally placed to receive the chefs-d'oeuvre of Selenite architecture.
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The next day Sarah showed Schulenberg a neat card on which the menu was beautifully typewritten with the viands temptingly marshalled under their right and proper heads from "hors d'oeuvre" to "not responsible for overcoats and umbrellas."
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In the centre of the room was a Roller and Blanchet "baby grand" piano in rosewood, but holding the potentialities of an orchestra in its narrow and sonorous cavity, and groaning beneath the weight of the chefs-d'oeuvre of Beethoven, Weber, Mozart, Haydn, Gretry, and Porpora.
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A chef d'oeuvre of that kind of quiet evolution of character through circumstance, introduced into English literature by Miss Austen, and carried to perfection in France by George Sand (who is more to the point, because, like Mrs.
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I forgot," the latter replied, with no sign of regret, and without even apologising to me he went off to order the hors d'oeuvre.
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