Afterpiece
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Afterpiece is a noun meaning (now chiefly historical) An additional work following the main work; especially, a minor entertainment performed after a play.
Meaning
(now chiefly historical) An additional work following the main work; especially, a minor entertainment performed after a play.
More Meanings
- (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.
Word Forms
- afterpieces
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mainpiece, encore, postscript, postlude, interlude, aftertale.
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