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centerpiece

noun

Etymology

From center + piece.

  1. derived from *kʷezdis✻ — “piece, portion, quota”
  2. derived from *pettyā✻
  3. derived from petia
  4. derived from piece
  5. inherited from pece
  6. formed as centerpiece — “center + piece”

Definitions

  1. US standard spelling of centrepiece.

    • The debt is fictional, the families’ lawyers said in Thursday’s filing, and “a centerpiece of Jones’s plan to avoid compensating the Sandy Hook families.”

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA