set piece

1. 1.

   a piece of scenery intended to stand alone as part of the stage setting

   Broaderscenery

Questions about set piece

What does set piece mean?

set piece means "a piece of scenery intended to stand alone as part of the stage setting".

Is set piece a common word?

set piece is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.