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noun

Centrepiece, Centerpiece n.

An ornament to be placed in the center, as of a table, ceiling, atc.; a central article or figure.

Specifically: An arrangement of flowers placed in the center of a table as an ornament while dining.

The central or most important feature of an activity, plan, or object; as, the centerpiece of her campaign was a proposal to slash taxes.

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Etymology of 'Centrepiece'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Centrepiece" Quotes from Famous Books

... her account of the day's happening. Dinner was announced almost immediately, and she was ushered into one of the largest dining-rooms she had ever seen, and seated at the long table. Such a large Christmas tree formed the centrepiece that she could catch only an occasional glimpse through its branches of Lloyd, seated on the other side ...

— The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation • Annie Fellows Johnston

... to be part in France and part in Scotland, and to deal with Prince Charlie about the year 1749; and now what have I done but begun a third which is to be all moorland together, and is to have for a centrepiece a figure that I think you will appreciate - that of the immortal Braxfield - Braxfield himself is my GRAND PREMIER, or, since you are so much involved in the British drama, let me say my heavy lead. ...

— Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 2 • Robert Louis Stevenson

... 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 pasties according to ...

— Kitty Trenire • Mabel Quiller-Couch

... an awning, the table was set, gay with white linen and glistening glass and silver, a centrepiece of flowers and jugs of red and yellow wine. The wistaria was in blossom, a world of colour and fragrance, shaken at odd moments by the swift dartings of innumerable lizards. The sun shone hot and clear; the still air, as you touched it, felt ...

— Grey Roses • Henry Harland

... to have this," she sobbed. "Ruby would have liked you to have it. It's the embroidered centerpiece she was working at. It isn't quite finished—the needle is sticking in it just where her poor little fingers put it the last time she laid it down, ...

— Anne Of The Island • Lucy Maud Montgomery

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