Crossword-Solution: SHOWPIECE
We have 10 clues for the answer “SHOWPIECE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| An item of work presented for display | 1 answer |
| Exhibition highlight | 1 answer |
| Expo spotlight | 1 answer |
| Outstanding work of art or performance with in a set of related items | 1 answer |
| Prized item in a display | 1 answer |
| Something for a vitrine | 1 answer |
| Very fine specimen | 1 answer |
| Outstanding work | 2 answers |
| Example of excellence | 3 answers |
| Curio | 38 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SHOWPIECE (3)
The groom opening a pair of decorative iron gates which were the showpiece of the neighbourhood, Mahony turned in and drove past exotic firs, Moreton Bay fig-trees and araucarias; past cherished English hollies growing side by side with giant cacti.
Grebes, etc, which have wings hardly sufficient to hide the cut beneath, can be cut on the back, between the wings, and skinned out that way; and if the breast is, as it should be, fronted for the "showpiece," the effect, if skilfully done, is very fine.
The architecture was a showpiece for the extravagant taste of some Victorian "enemy of the people." But what really set it apart was that the walls were lined with exquisitely severe antique swords and armor from Japan.
Quotes with SHOWPIECE (3)
Women are no sheep. Women are no fragile showpiece to be placed above the fire-place. Women of the thinking society are the builders of nations. Women of the sentient society are the builders of the world.
It was a hideous ancient thing that stood on tiger feet in the middle of the floor. Like a showpiece. And he did enjoy showing it. He would bring his friends upstairs to the master bathroom so that they could admire the monstrosity while he told them the whole long boring story of how he’d gotten it at an estate sale in Hollywood. Some bimbo actress from the silent-screen days had supposedly slit her wrists while she was in the thing. ‘Cashed in her chips,’ Harold liked to say. ‘In this very tub.
There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for His people to make a showpiece of Him and not to use Him.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1973–2019).