objet d'art

1. 1.

   a work of art of some artistic value

   “this store sells only objets d'art”

   “it is not known who created this piece”

   Synonymsart objectpiece

   Broaderwork of art

   Narrowervirtu

Questions about objet d'art

What does objet d'art mean?

objet d'art means "a work of art of some artistic value".

What is another word for objet d'art?

Close synonyms include art object, piece. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is objet d'art a common word?

objet d'art is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.