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conversation piece

  1. a type of genre painting, popular in the 18th cent., which shows a group of people in an appropriate setting
  2. something, as an unusual article of furniture, that attracts attention or invites comment

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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