NOUN
- the most important dish of a meal
- the outstanding item (the prize piece or main exhibit) in a collection
How To Use piece de resistance In A Sentence
- Then the ‘piece de resistance’ - I spooned two blobs of vanilla ice cream on the two portions, and thus a remarkable meal was complete.
- Black serge, grey tweed, violet ninon; two evening frocks, and the one white satin which was the _piece de resistance_ of the whole. A College Girl
- The birthday piece de resistance - the ice cream bombe loaded with sparklers.
- For the piece de résistance, set all within a naturalized sea of camassia bulbs with their tall greenish spires and soft blue florets that bloom for weeks on end in late spring.
- The pièce de résistance, Brad adds, came when Elton rose to toast the honoree.
- She too wore her hair piled in an upsweep, but her pièce de résistance was the locket she wore that hung down to her navel. In the Fullness of Time
- There was some tea-bagger there who monopolized his time, rudely talked over him, and as his piece de resistance, excoriated Bennet for not having the underpants bomber declared an enemy combatant. Think Progress » Using Double Standard, Conservatives Absolve Bush For ‘Domestic Attacks’ On His Watch
- Run by Richard Burk, who in a past life held sway over the Dusit Resort, the noshery exudes class and style but the piece de resistance (and my piece of resistance was definitely lacking) is the chocolate fudge cake.
- Their evidentiary pièce de résistance is an 1870 portrait of Alcott that shows the characteristic malar, or butterfly, rash of lupus. Louisa May Alcott
- Consider what that means for a minute: the pièce de résistance of the PPACA is the individual mandate. Latest Articles
