pièce de résistance
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But its pièce de résistance for Roffman was Caselotti herself, who was home that afternoon and happy to entertain strangers with her cherubic singsong cadence.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2025
As the pièce de résistance, she harnessed herself to a Chevy Silverado — which itself was attached to a food truck trailer — and dragged it 40 feet in 40 seconds.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2024
If you want to buy a Birkin bag, the pièce de résistance from the French luxury retailer Hermès, you should know that you probably can’t.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2024
Young’s Lutiebelle confrontation with Sanders’ Cotchipee is the production’s pièce de résistance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2023
But this "illigant divarsion" was only a sort of hors d'œuvres to the pièce de résistance, "Supply—Irish Votes," which was as strong and savoury as the National Stew itself.
From Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 93, September 10, 1887 by Various
France looked effortlessly cool throughout in the sweltering Seville heat - the piece de resistance of that all-timer of a home kit.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
Ermotti may need to persuade Switzerland's authorities that UBS should keep "the piece de resistance," Credit Suisse's domestic bank, said Porta's Wittmann.
From Reuters ● Mar. 29, 2023
It is lovely over a salad, atop avocado toast, or — of course — in Eggs Benedict, arguably the piece de resistance of poached egg dishes.
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2023
His arrival in an already crowded class of Trojan transfers could prove to be the piece de resistance of Riley’s offseason overhaul.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2022
From such localities the elusive piece de resistance was often rescued.
From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Sir Douglas Mawson
