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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 masterpiece

Definitions

  1. A masterpiece

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

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