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In French the word for play, as in a theatrical production, is pi\u00e8ce<\/strong> or pi\u00e8ce de th\u00e9\u00e2tre<\/strong>. <\/p>\n Pi\u00e8ce<\/em> also means:<\/p>\n – a room The word pi\u00e8ce<\/em> comes from the Old French piece<\/em> (piece, bit, part), from the Vulgar Latin *pettia<\/em>, from the Gaulish *petty\u0101<\/em>, from the Proto-Celtic *k\u02b7esdis<\/em> \u200e(piece, portion). <\/p>\n Over expressions featuring pi\u00e8ce<\/em> include:<\/p>\n – pi\u00e8ce \u00e0 conviction = exhibit Source: Reverso<\/a>, Wiktionary<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In French the word for play, as in a theatrical production, is pi\u00e8ce or pi\u00e8ce de th\u00e9\u00e2tre. Pi\u00e8ce also means: – a room – a part (of a mechanism or machine) – a coin – a patch (on clothes) – a document – a piece, as in a one-piece swimsuit or a twelve-piece dinner service. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,111,10,15,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-language","category-latin","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– a part (of a mechanism or machine<\/em>)
\n– a coin
\n– a patch (on clothes<\/em>)
\n– a document
\n– a piece, as in a one-piece swimsuit or a twelve-piece dinner service<\/em>.<\/p>\n
\n– pi\u00e8ce d’eau = ornamental lake, ornamental pond
\n– pi\u00e8ce de rechange = spare part
\n– pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance = pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance (main dish, masterpiece; outstanding event or item)
\n– pi\u00e8ce d\u00e9tach\u00e9e = spare part, spare
\n– en pi\u00e8ces d\u00e9tach\u00e9es = in kit form
\n– pi\u00e8ce d’identit\u00e9 = ID
\n– pi\u00e8ce mont\u00e9e = tiered cake<\/p>\n