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Where does “chef d'œuvre” come from?

chef d'œuvre (English) comes from French chef-d'œuvre — the chief example of a body of work, a...

chef d'œuvre (English): A piece of work that has been given much critical...

Definitions

  1. A piece of work that has been given much critical...

Ancestry of “chef d'œuvre”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchchef-d'œuvrethe chief example of a body of work, a...
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