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This week's theme French terms This week's words rapporteur amour-propre esprit de corps chef-d'oeuvre savoir-faire License Our Material Not just in email, our daily words appear in various media, from newspapers to digital picture frames. You too can license our material for your newspaper, magazine, website, newsletter, LCD display, etc. See details. Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg chef-d'oeuvre PRONUNCIATION: (shay-DOO-vruh) MEANING: noun: A masterpiece. ETYMOLOGY: From French chef-d'oeuvre (masterpiece), from chef (chief) + oeuvre (work). USAGE: "Not every item is a chef d'oeuvre: The Surrealists loved to create collages from trivial snapshots." Jorg von Uthmann; Kinky Dolls, Glass Tears Adorn Surrealist Photo Show; Bloomberg; Oct 29, 2009. Explore "chef-d'oeuvre" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. -Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)

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