period piece
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- noun
- /ˈpɪr.i.əd piːs/
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- An honest tale of greed, justice, and mercy, a cinematic period piece that engenders romance and ruthlessness in equal amounts.
This is a fucking period piece drama set.
- This is a fucking period piece drama set.
- They may not like watching the subtitled period piece TV shows you like.
Examples
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To make the film, Olmi returned to his hometown of Bergamo and cast his period piece not with professional actors, but with the local townsfolk themselves.
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The one-eyed king enters the stage much like a gentleman in a period piece: he appears to be wearing a black tailcoat, white waistcoat, black bow tie, black pants, and fancy dress shoes.
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Working Title's other major period piece could be the film's major competition.
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Most movies are not made to be period pieces, but the world moves on and they stand still.
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I mean, at this point, the only way to do a totally accurate adaptation would be to make it a period piece.
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It's a period piece, but director Doug Hughes makes the story live in the present as well as the past.
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The material could easily lend itself to the stuffy brand of period piece, which is the type of film we see all too often during the awards season.
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Spielberg's take on the President and the time was just that: a great period piece of the man and the events surrounding his frustration and political trials.
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Normally audiences are used to seeing DDL star in period pieces, and let's be honest, this is a period piece, but the period in question spans the late 70s.
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The film is a stunning period piece that vividly portrays life in the Victorian era.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a work that depicts a particular historical period' is directly derivable from combining 'period' (a span or era of time) with 'piece' (a work or composition). This compositional pattern is common and has clear parallels in other languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will very likely infer the intended sense.
Etymology
Period piece comes from the idea of a piece as an object or work and a period as a 'past time', so a period piece is a film, book, or object that shows the look and daily life of that earlier time.