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PERIOD PIECE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any work of art whose special value lies in its evocation of a historical period
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("period piece" is a kind of...):
work of art (art that is a product of one of the fine arts (especially a painting or sculpture of artistic merit))