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afterpiece|ˈɑːftəpiːs, æ-|
[after- 6.]
1. ‘A farce or any smaller entertainment after the play.’ J. Hence, any extra item following the main fare in a programme of entertainment; an epilogue. Also fig.
1779T. Holcroft Let. in Memoirs (1816) III. 251 We have a new afterpiece of Mr. Sheridan's coming out this evening, ‘The Critic’. 1806Mem. of R. Cumberland i. 296 Eight and twenty nights it went without the buttress of an afterpiece. 1860L. Hunt Autobiog. vi. 127 He could bring the tears into your eyes for some honest sufferer in an afterpiece. 1863M. Howitt tr. Bremer's Greece I. vi. 202 But the seven years' tragedy of Greece was still destined to have a bloody afterpiece. 1899[see knock-about, knockabout n. 1]. 1933E. K. Chambers Eng. Folk-Play 70 Music, dance and song, helped by patter, often turn it into an afterpiece, something like a revue. 1960P. Colum Poet's Circuits 115 (heading) After-piece. ‘Wanderer's Song’. 1976Early Music Oct. 394/1 An Afterpiece: a short, light work from roughly the same period as Dido with some connection (perhaps parodic) in subject or treatment. 1984Daily Tel. 23 Nov. 18/6 ‘Trial by Jury’ was commissioned as a mere ‘after-piece’ for Offenbach's ‘La Perichole’.
2. Naut. The heel of a rudder. |