See pièce de résistance on Wiktionary
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"word": "plat de résistance"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"French countable nouns",
"French entries with incorrect language header",
"French feminine nouns",
"French idioms",
"French lemmas",
"French multiword terms",
"French nouns",
"French terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"the finest part of something, especially a meal"
],
"links": [
[
"finest",
"finest"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) the finest part of something, especially a meal"
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pjɛs də ʁe.zis.tɑ̃s/"
},
{
"audio": "fr-fr-pièce de résistance.ogg",
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Fr-fr-pi%C3%A8ce_de_r%C3%A9sistance.ogg"
}
],
"word": "pièce de résistance"
}
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