Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A bit; a morsel; a small piece.
  • noun A short piece or a passage of a literary composition.
  • noun In music:
  • noun A short composition, usually of simple character.
  • noun An excerpt or extract.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A bit; a morsel.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A bit; a morsel.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a short literary or musical composition

Etymologies

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French

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Examples

  • So choice a morceau was the very thing that every body wanted; and, in the course of his journey, subscriptions poured in to the extent of one thousand; and Mr.C. on his return, after what might be called a triumph, discovered the elasticity of his spirit; smiling at past depressions, and now, on solid ground, anticipating ease, wealth, and fame.

    Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey Cottle, Joseph 1847

  • But that needn't preclude us from savouring just what makes Coleridge's little "morceau" so delicious for our consideration of Hazlitt's periodical criticism.

    Periodical Indigestion 1997

  • Your description of Tangier will be another interesting 'morceau' for her.

    George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Clement King Shorter 1891

  • If the woman ahead of you didn't want any hole in her Emmental, she should have asked for “un morceau de GRUYERE”! ... yet, another Swiss cheese, but, unlike the Emmental, it has no hole in it.

    rigolo - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • Bravely, I walked into a luscious-looking fromagerie in Lucerne and proudly asked the fromager for "un morceau de fromage suisse", hoping to buy some emmenthal.

    rigolo - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • Merci, merci, pour partager ce petit morceau charmant de la vie provencal.

    rubrique - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • If the woman ahead of you didn't want any hole in her Emmental, she should have asked for “un morceau de GRUYERE”!... yet, another Swiss cheese, but, unlike the Emmental, it has no hole in it.

    rigolo - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • Bravely, I walked into a luscious-looking fromagerie in Lucerne and proudly asked the fromager for "un morceau de fromage suisse", hoping to buy some emmenthal.

    rigolo - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • Vous n'êtes pas accueilli ici, vous peu de morceau de merde.

    New Obama Ad Sketches His American Story 2009

  • Merci, merci, pour partager ce petit morceau charmant de la vie provencal.

    rubrique - French Word-A-Day 2009

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