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Centrepiece

noun
1.
The central or most important feature.  Synonym: centerpiece.
2.
Something placed at the center of something else (as on a table).  Synonym: centerpiece.






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"Centrepiece" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Gyppies" tugged and wailed, "No gude! No gude! Finish Noo Zealand!" to which the only reply was "Imshi Yallah, you black devils." At this stage the little beast, an animal of rather miserable dimensions, with a large, rotund centrepiece, escaped and wobbled ridiculously down the street. He was recaptured, drenched with two more bottles, and let loose to wander wherever his tottery legs would carry him. The donk swayed and stumbled, his ears cocked at all angles, and his expression happy and foolish. The gathered ...
— The Tale of a Trooper • Clutha N. Mackenzie

... designer is unknown, but the feeling is very Sienese; Romulus and Remus are seen in their customary relation to the domesticated wolf, while the symbolical animals of various Italian cities are arranged in a series of circles around this centrepiece. One of the most striking designs is that of Absalom, hanging by his hair. It is in sharp black and white, and the foliage of the trees is remarkably decorative, rendered with interesting minutiae. This is attributed to Pietro del Minella, ...
— Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages • Julia De Wolf Addison

... the wealthy people I have visited you may sit down to dinner with nothing but meat put before you, without a bite of bread or any vegetables. All drink water out of an earthenware pitcher of peculiar shape, which is the centrepiece of the table. ...
— Through Five Republics on Horseback • G. Whitfield Ray

... regretful sigh and a little shake Kitty rose and made her way to the large flat rock by the water's edge, on which the others had grouped themselves in more or less easy attitudes, with the food as a centrepiece. Betty had spread a sheet of white paper, and on it had arranged the ...
— Kitty Trenire • Mabel Quiller-Couch

... of the drama, which was, after all, only the centrepiece of a trilogy, built on a drama acted before Leigh's entrance to the scene, and promising another in the future, was played more below the surface than above. Not one tenth of the things that might have been said ...
— The Mayor of Warwick • Herbert M. Hopkins



Words linked to "Centrepiece" :   feature, decoration, ornamentation, centerpiece, epergne, characteristic, ornament



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