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‖ pièce|pjɛs|
The French for ‘piece’; occurring in French phrases, more or less in current Eng. use. a. A document used as evidence; esp. in pièce justificative, a document serving as proof of an allegation; a justification of an assertion.
1789H. More in W. Roberts Mem. (1834) II. iii. iv. 160 You will think me a great brute and savage..till you have read my pièce justificative. 1882A. J. Munby Diary 5 Apr. in D. Hudson Munby (1972) 405 Some day I may publish some of these—piéces [sic] justificatives, as the phrase is. 1917N. Douglas South Wind xxxiv. 412 The various pièces justificatives were lying in their sealed envelopes. 1954W. K. Hancock Country & Calling viii. 227 The historian, although he may employ analysis and its technical language in his preliminary studies or his pièces justificatives, remains just as deeply committed as Herodotus and Thucydides were to narrative and the language of narrative. 1975Listener 7 Aug. 186/1 Laud wanted to publish the Greek and oriental manuscripts which..were pièces justificatives of the continuous, independent Church of England.
b. pièce de résistance |pjɛs də rezistɑ̃s|: the most substantial dish in a repast; also fig. the chief item in a collection, group, or series; in quot. 1860, used for ‘a means of resistance’.
[1797Burke Regic. Peace iv. Wks. IX. 7 Our appetite demands a piece of resistance.] 1839Lockhart Scott xix. III. 214 note, In answer to her host's apology for his piece de resistance. 1840Thackeray Misc. Ess., Pict. Rhapsody (1885) 184 To supply the picture-lover with the pièces de résistance of the feast. 1860Jowett in Essays & Reviews 335 This authorized text is a pièce de résistance against innovation. 1893Outing (U.S.) XXII. 149/2 The pièce de résistance of the entire ride lies between Poughkeepsie and Yonkers.
c. pièce de conviction |pjɛs də kɔ̃viksjɔ̃|: an object produced as evidence in a criminal case, an exhibit; also fig., the conclusive argument which decides a question.
1877[see Black Museum s.v. black a. 19]. 1894G. B. Shaw Let. 6 Dec. (1965) I. 469 Perhaps it may a little disappoint you, after the fantastic solution of Peer Gynt, and the no-solution of Rosmersholm, that a real solution is only found in something that brings the great Ibsen into line with Monsieur Tout-le-monde; but that, in my view, is the final pièce de conviction.
d. pièce d'occasion |pjɛs dokazjɔ̃|: a play or other literary work, or a musical composition, written for a special occasion.
1883E. B. Bax Kant's Prolegomena & Metaphysical Found. Nat. Sci. p. xxvii, Kant believed himself to have no special bent for the professorate in question, which would have involved the criticism of all pièces d'occasion, as well as the composition of such on academic festivals. 1891G. B. Shaw Quintessence of Ibsenism p. vi, I had laid it aside as a pièce d'occasion which had served its turn. 1914― Dark Lady of Sonnets 103 This little pièce d'occasion, written for a performance in aid of the funds of the project for establishing a National Theatre as a memorial to Shakespear. 1934C. Lambert Music Ho! ii. 63 These mild pièces d'occasion no more affected the main course of music than an Olde Worlde Bunne Shoppe affects..architectural experiments. 1955Times 29 Aug. 10/6 The result may not be homogeneous enough in style to ensure the work a place in the regular orchestral repertory, but it is certainly a splendid pièce d'occasion for this orchestra, who played it with tremendous verve and finish [at their Prom début]. 1971Nature 25 June 537/1 His Presidential Address of 1951..is..an attempt to condense the history of chemistry in a single pièce d'occasion. 1979Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXVII. 181/2 This book is a pièce d'occasion—a collection of essays published to coincide with the exhibition of Cézanne's late work, held in New York and Houston in 1977 and in Paris in 1978.
e. pièce de circonstance |pjɛs də sirkɔ̃stɔ̃s|: a literary composition, theory, etc., having its genesis in a particular situation.
1926R. H. Tawney Relig. & Rise of Capitalism ii. 89 His sermons and pamphlets..were pièces de circonstance, thrown off in the storm of a revolution. 1972R. Plant in Cox & Dyson 20th-Cent. Mind II. iv. 68 The fact that the historical circumstances which gave rise to [social] theories no longer obtain does not thereby entail that they have become outmoded. Such theories, far from being mere pièces de circonstance, rather embody an element which transcends the particular problems which generated them.
f. pièce noire |pjɛs nwar|: a play or a film with a tragic or macabre theme.
1958Times 17 Apr. 3/4 Payment Deferred or The Postman Always Rings Twice are good pièces noirs [sic] because their characters are motivated by passions so intensely conveyed that the subsequent developments are inescapable. 1959Oxf. Compan. French Lit. 22/2 [Anouilh's] Pièces roses..and Pièces noires..like Shaw's Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant..deal with the lighter or the darker side of life. 1963Punch 20 Nov. 754/3 As black a pièce noire as can be.
g. pièce rose |pjɛs roz|: a play or a film having a theme which is pleasantly entertaining; a comedy.
1959[see pièce noire above]. 1963Times 18 May 5/1 It is, what Anouilh calls a pièce rose and lightly tosses around such ideas familiar to the playwright as innocence and faith, illusion and reality. 1968Punch 6 Nov. 668/3 Eighteen years (and Look Back in Anger) later Anouilh's pièce rose seems pathetically pale and withered around the edges.
h. pièce à thèse |pjɛs a tɛz|: = thesis-play s.v. thesis 6.
1961Times 17 Oct. 16/5 In most hands this [television play] could turn into a mechanical pièce à thèse. 1974Independent Broadcasting Aug. 5/2 How far the pièce à thèse, the play with a social or political message, is permissible within the impartiality rule. |