oeuvre

• œuvre

From French œuvre, from the Latin opus.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɜːvɹə/, /ˈuːvɹə/

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oeuvre (plural oeuvres)

1. A work of art.
2. The complete body of an artist's work.

"There, in that pale region, beneath that essential cover, the twin incompatibility of an œuvre and madness is unveiled; it is the blind spot of each one's possibility, and of their mutual exclusion." - Michel Foucault. "Madness, the absence of an œuvre." In History of Madness, edited by Jean Khalfa, 541-549. Routledge, 2006. Original Publication: Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique (Gallimard, 1972) Accessed Here

• 1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 7 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN

  Let’s “fictionalize” Foucault’s life by turning it into a biographical account of Foucault and his oeuvre or work.

• complete works

• hors d'oeuvre
• manoeuvre
• body of work

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oeuvre n (plural oeuvres, diminutive oeuvretje n)

1. oeuvre

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oeuvre f (plural oeuvres)

1. Nonstandard spelling of œuvre.

• The œ ligature is often replaced in contemporary French with oe (the œ character does not appear on AZERTY keyboards), but this is nonstandard.

• “oeuvre” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• érouve

• œuvre

Old French uevre.

oeuvre m or f (plural oeuvres)

1. work; piece of work