Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for MAS'TER-PIECE
MAS'TER-PIECE, n.
- A capital performance; any thing done or made with superior or extraordinary skill. This wondrous master-piece I fain would see. Dryden.
- Chief excellence or talent. Dissimulation was his master-piece. Clarendon.
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