conversation piece


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
conversation piece
noun
  • 1 a type of genre painting in which groups of figures are posed in a landscape or domestic setting.
  • 2 an object whose unusual quality makes it a topic of conversation.
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