afterpiece

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17
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19
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10

Definition of afterpiece

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (historical)An additional work following the main work; especially, a minor entertainment performed after a play.
    “To preface much concerning these little after-pieces of Poetry, I hold needlesse, having spoke my mind so fully before.”
    “The idea of farces, or after-pieces, tho’ an inferior branch of the Drama, is, in fact, among the refinements of an improved age.”
    “There was a silly after-piece called Carnarvon Castle, or, The Birth of the Prince of Wales.”
    “[…] let us have a play entire from beginning to end; so as it be a German play, no matter what, with a good tricking, shifting after-piece, and a figure-dance, and a horn-pipe, and a song between the acts.”
    “The policeman, perceiving that the interest of the entire group of spectators was centred upon himself and Lorison […] was fain to prolong the situation—which reflected his own importance—by a little afterpiece of philosophical comment.”
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noun

  1. (historical)An additional work following the main work; especially, a minor entertainment performed after a play.
    “To preface much concerning these little after-pieces of Poetry, I hold needlesse, having spoke my mind so fully before.”
    “The idea of farces, or after-pieces, tho’ an inferior branch of the Drama, is, in fact, among the refinements of an improved age.”
    “There was a silly after-piece called Carnarvon Castle, or, The Birth of the Prince of Wales.”
    “[…] let us have a play entire from beginning to end; so as it be a German play, no matter what, with a good tricking, shifting after-piece, and a figure-dance, and a horn-pipe, and a song between the acts.”
    “The policeman, perceiving that the interest of the entire group of spectators was centred upon himself and Lorison […] was fain to prolong the situation—which reflected his own importance—by a little afterpiece of philosophical comment.”
  2. The heel of a rudder.

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Etymology

From after- + piece.

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