OBJET D'ART

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: objets d'art

Meaning:

A work of art of some artistic value

Example:

it is not known who created this piece

Synonyms:

art object; objet d'art; piece

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("objet d'art" 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))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "objet d'art"):

virtu (objet d'art collectively (especially fine antiques))