Meaning of maestropiece | Babel Free

Definitions

An outstanding work of a maestro.

humorous, rare

Examples

“On da Av’noo D near Ten street Peno wida all heesa granda, magnifique muscle was grind out Signor Tomaso Mascagni’s maestropiece, ‘Cavallierre Rusticana,’ when long coma half doz verra bad Americano kid wid da snowball.”

“As he made the last stroke, with an artist’s flourish, he turned to his colleague (who has been industriously keeping his track to the grindstone all this time)[,] tapped him on the shoulder and displayed the single, unbroken piece of peeling as a maestro would unveil his maestro[-]piece.”

“Perhaps it was merely ’flu delirium that made me think of the same fellow as the hero of the next song, that great maestropiece “Music, maestro, please”—the sort of thing, perhaps, that in old music-hall days would have been allotted to that terrible person the “descriptive vocalist.””

“Howth to wake into silverscreaming cinequanonsense the doublin mage’s perplixacated maestropiece? To lustify that seemworld? Obliviously by giving a fairful earing to the joyceous blooms of vherbal slanguage mythed up with etymologicalities—and accompliced by flimflamfilm eyeings as well. In sport, Mary Ellen Bute’s 97 minutes of vagariations on seems from Finnegans Wake is both punny and movieing.”

“Make sure your music software is stand-alone, too (ie, it doesn’t have to be loaded into a utility—we don’t want to have to mess around with bits of wire or umpteen different programs just to hear your maestropiece).”

“Although song lengths are beginning to crawl onto the tedious side, and the album as a whole is not the complete maestropiece that some folks have pegged it as, I’d still be plenty happy to pledge my groovallegiance (promising to funk, the whole funk, and nothing but the funk) and serve as a funky flunky in the U. F. of F.’s State Department any ol’ time.”

“In this highly ambitious work Harris has stripped the conceptual matrix of all extraneous plot, characterisation and conclusion to bring us a maestropiece of aconsonant disavowel and non-alliterative desymbolisation.”

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