chef-d'œuvre
See also: chef d'œuvre and chef d'oeuvre
English
Noun
chef-d'œuvre (plural chefs-d'œuvre)
- Alternative form of chef d'œuvre
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 21345056, page 307:
- I shall have a bottle of the old Burgundy, and tell Chloe he must exert himself to send me up some slight chef-d'œuvre for supper: I am sure that one needs something, after so much annoyance!
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃɛ.d‿œvʁ/
Noun
chef-d’œuvre m (plural chefs-d'œuvre)
- the chief example of a body of work, a masterpiece
Descendants
- → Indonesian: adikarya (calque)
- → Italian: capodopera (calque)
Further reading
- “chef-d'œuvre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.