Afterpiece

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

(now chiefly historical) An additional work following the main work; especially, a minor entertainment performed after a play..

Definitions by Sense

1. (now chiefly historical) An additional work following the main work; especially, a minor entertainment performed after a play.
2. (nautical) The heel of a rudder.

Example Sentences

There was a silly after-piece called Carnarvon Castle, or, The Birth of the Prince of Wales.

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.

[…] 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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