One word

Oeuvre

Word of the day on 01 October 2009.

Winning tweet

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routermonkey
After mastering french, bi-fold and dutch doors, the carpenter was proud to add louvered to his oeuvre. #artwiculate

Good uses

  • Theonlygolux
    69
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    Said a young artist called Clover, "My body's my oeuvre." He waxed his left teste, ignored all the reste and stood on a plinth bending over.
  • caslexplorers
    63
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    Roll oeuvre, Beethoven!
  • thebigmonty
    60
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    My mate was late at the Tate while I was getting in the groove with my oeuvre at the Louvre.
  • jay_wfu06
    55
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    The sculpture installers were in the way, so I told them to move oeuvre. #artwiculate
  • jay_wfu06
    50
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    I don't just make eggs for breakfast. I prepare an oeuvre des oeufs. #artwiculate
  • onesparrow
    49
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    There once was man named Van Gogh/ who had his whole oeuvre on show/ it didn't go down/ so a shotgun he found/ the rest you probably know
  • lagadu123
    49
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    I'm afraid my oeuvre is rather pauvre
  • dave_d_84
    45
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    Mona Lisa's time of the month is known as oeuvre-ulating. How #artwiculate
  • DrMobs
    45
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    If you put the oeuvre of Picasso in a big pot, mixed it well and poured it out back onto canvas, it wouldn't look much different.
  • thebigmonty
    45
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    @artwiculate It isn't oeuvre until the fat lady sings.
  • Theonlygolux
    45
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    In a century will we see artists and writers who tweeted or flickred their entire oeuvre? Is this a debasement, or must we be patient?
  • DF77
    45
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    Ken Burns' excellent documentaries on varied subjects comprises an impressive oeuvre for all posterity.
  • TheSupercargo
    44
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    Everything I've ever made / Everything I'll ever make / Every word I've ever written / Every snap I ever take / It's my Oeuvre. @artwiculate
  • _ado
    44
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    It's just a matter of time before someone refers to his or her collection of tweets as an "oeuvre".
  • MaryJenkins
    44
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    I like a big oeuvre, and I can-not lie. You starving artists can't deny.... #artwiculate
  • CindieLou
    44
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    The oeuvre at the Louvre hangs mainly on the wallvre. #artwiculate
  • bradisbest
    40
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    I love xkcd, what an oeuvre.
  • iMike
    40
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    Pollock's oeuvre is scrambled.
  • deeleea
    40
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    'Oeuvre and Out' the iconic gay artist's last public exhibition. #artwiculate
  • DaveCurry
    40
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    From the Foghorn Leghorn oeuvre - "That boy's as thick as a whale sandwich." #artwiculate #foghornleghorn
  • mdavis1982
    39
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    There once was a man with a Hoover, Who made a disastrous manoeuvre, He wasn't too smart, Gazing at art, And sucked up a priceless oeuvre!
  • onesparrow
    37
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    Helen had caught Greg rifling through her bag again. "You're a real piece of work, you know that? We're done. It's oeuvre!" she declared.
  • thoughts
    35
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    Last words for an artist: oeuvre and out.
  • holby83
    35
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    Compromising one's academic oeuvre with dodgy statistics? There's an app for that... #artwiculate
  • jdmyers
    35
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    What ever happened to @zombieattack? Their story is now just an incomplete and almost forgotten oeuvre. #artwiculate
  • McAnza
    35
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    After the murder, they could account for all but one of the paintings, the very first oeuvre in the artist's oeuvre. #artwiculate
  • marcosarroyos
    35
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    While on his way to receive a lifetime achievement award for his oeuvre, Roman Polanski suffered an arrest that he richly deserved.
  • browningshane
    35
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    What will my children say of my life's oeuvre? "He spent too much time on twitter....."
  • lessthanaaron
    34
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    define: oeuvre The complete body of an artist's work. Its a shame Van Gogh cut his ear off then!
  • jd_sand
    33
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    Wrote Virginia Woolf to husband: "My life's oeuvre."
  • zimmerjohn
    33
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    Chef's masterpiece at a roadside diner: Eggs Oeuvre Easy #artwiculate
  • dermois
    33
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    @artwiculate even if yesterday's "your bum's aplumb" was to be my oeuvre it still deserved to win! #votemustberiggedlol
  • lee_baines
    32
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    It must have been Louvre, but it's oeuvre now...
  • dave_d_84
    30
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    They should have called it, the 1812 oeuvre-ture. Zing.
  • airynothing
    30
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    Trying again: if a chef is an artist, then would Gordon Ramsay's oeuvre consist of hors d'oeuvre #artwiculate
  • caslexplorers
    30
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    He wrote great books all his life, publishing oeuvre and oeuvre and oeuvre again.
  • simonthehunter
    30
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    The Dyson. An oeuvre to out manoeuvre Hoover.
  • revhappiness
    30
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    One thousand glittering paper cranes suspended from the ceiling was a testament to his oeuvre. And a multitude of paper cuts.
  • DF77
    30
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    @artwiculate My dear Adriene, your hor d'oeuvres are truly de rigueur and add to your oeuvre as a gourmet cook.
  • paisonline
    30
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    If you want to find my oeuvre, don't look for it at the Louvre, but somewhere perhaps with a little more verve, the @Tate should serve.
  • kungfuk1tten
    30
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    Justin entered the studio just as I was finishing my sculpture. "What's that?" he asked. "It's oeuvre!" I yelled & I haven't seen him since.
  • theholotrope
    30
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    "What did one body of work say to the other? We are so oeuvre!" Yeah, I know...[sigh]
  • AnchorBoy
    29
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    @artwiculate oeuvre at "The Louvre" or me and you at the Pompidou?
  • yopopodawn
    29
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    Artie sat back and sucked his fingers, his Farley's Rusk oeuvre finally complete. No one would be sitting on that sofa for quite a while.
  • PeggyKnaack
    29
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    Monsieur, you may not remove an oeuvre from the Louvre... (ala Peter Sellers)
  • pkaeding
    29
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    Move your oeuvre over, my portfolio doesn't fit! #artwiculate
  • FluffySucks
    29
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    As an OBGYN I've an overt obsession w/ovarian pain in opposition to the ovulation calender & the oeuvre obligated to the subject by the JAMA
  • dave_d_84
    28
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    Some Yoga positions call for bending oeuvre.
  • kurisu628
    28
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    : Seriously, France. "The Art Collection?" That's the best you could do? (>_<)p ~'Le Oeuvre' ダッサー #artwiculatetaketwo

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