showpiece

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A showpiece is:

• An accomplishment which is worthy of display and admiration:

:* English Wikipedia's 1,000,000th qualified article,{{cite web |url= https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/English_Wikipedia_Publishes_Millionth_Article |title= English Wikipedia Publishes Millionth Article |work= Wikimedia Foundation press release |date= 1 March 2006 |quote= }} Jordanhill railway station, was called a "showpiece of parallel collaboration".{{cite web |url= http://blog.phpdoc.info/archives/34-Wikipedia-English-Hits-1,000,000-articles.html |title= Wikipedia (English) Hits 1,000,000 articles |date= 1 March 2006 |quote= }}

• An outstanding example of a type:

:* Beacon Hill Park in Victoria, British Columbia is considered a showpiece garden.{{cite web |url= http://www.victoriabc.com/main.php4?area=10 |title= Beacon Hill Park |work= Vancouver Island Campgrounds & Parks |url-status= dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20061125025057/http://www.victoriabc.com/main.php4?area=10 |archivedate= 2006-11-25 }}

:* The Green Mountain College organic garden with many heirloom plantings has become a campus showpiece.{{cite web |url= http://www.greenmtn.edu/campustour/index.asp |title= Organic Garden |work= Green Mountain College Map |url-status= dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20060902104859/http://www.greenmtn.edu/campustour/index.asp |archivedate= 2006-09-02 }}

• A performance or composition which provides an opportunity for the display of a particular skill:

:* The Dying Swan was ballerina Anna Pavlova's showpiece.

:* Luciano Berio's Sequenza XII is a showpiece for bassoon.

• A work of art or theatrical production presented for exhibition:

:* In 1994, choreographer Jerome Robbins created a showpiece for the School of American Ballet based on composer Johann Sebastian Bach's Two and Three Part Inventions.{{cite web |url= http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/17/sept98/jacobs.htm |title= Jerome Robbins, 1918-1998 |author= Laura Jacobs |work= The New Criterion Vol. 17, No. 1, September 1998 |quote= }}

• In the satiric sense, a showpiece is a charade, a mockery, an empty or absurd pretense.