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AFTERPIECE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does afterpiece mean?
• AFTERPIECE (noun)
The noun AFTERPIECE has 1 sense:
1. a brief dramatic piece (usually comic) presented after a play
Familiarity information: AFTERPIECE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A brief dramatic piece (usually comic) presented after a play
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("afterpiece" is a kind of...):
piece (an artistic or literary composition)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "afterpiece"):
exode (a farcical afterpiece in the ancient Roman theater)
Context examples
“An afterpiece instead of a comedy,” said Mr. Bertram.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
If we are to act, let it be in a theatre completely fitted up with pit, boxes, and gallery, and 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 afterpiece, and a figure-dance, and a hornpipe, and a song between the acts.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
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