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Definition of Interlude
1. Noun. An intervening period or episode.
2. Verb. Perform an interlude. "The guitar player interluded with a beautiful improvisation"
3. Noun. A brief show (music or dance etc) inserted between the sections of a longer performance.
Definition of Interlude
1. n. A short entertainment exhibited on the stage between the acts of a play, or between the play and the afterpiece, to relieve the tedium of waiting.
Definition of Interlude
1. Noun. An intervening episode, etc. ¹
2. Noun. An entertainment between the acts of a play. ¹
3. Noun. (music) A short piece put between the parts of a longer composition. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) To provide with an interlude. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Interlude
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Medical Definition of Interlude
1. 1. A short entertainment exhibited on the stage between the acts of a play, or between the play and the afterpiece, to relieve the tedium of waiting. "Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes When monarch reason sleeps." (Dryden) 2. A form of English drama or play, usually short, merry, and farcical, which succeeded the Moralities or Moral Plays in the transition to the romantic or Elizabethan drama. 3. A short piece of instrumental music played between the parts of a song or cantata, or the acts of a drama; especially, in church music, a short passage played by the organist between the stanzas of a hymn, or in German chorals after each line. Origin: OE. Enterlude, LL. Interludium; LL. Inter between + ludus play, fr. Ludere to play: cf. F. Interlude. See Ludicrous. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Interlude
Literary usage of Interlude
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Tudor Drama: A History of English National Drama to the Retirement of by Tucker Brooke (1911)
"(However, the term "interlude" came more and more to be employed during the ...
If a distinction between morality and interlude is at all to be drawn on the ..."
2. The Book Collector's Guide: A Practical Handbook of British and American by Seymour de Ricci (1921)
"A pretty new Interlude both pithy and pleasant of the Story of King Darius. ...
A new and merry Interlude called the Trial of Treasure. ..."
3. Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes (1895)
"Interlude. The Poet's Tale: The Birds of Killing- The Spanish Jew's Second Tale:
... Interlude. The Landlord's Tale: The Rhyme of Finale. Sir Christopher. ..."
4. Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages by Percy Society (1848)
"A new Interlude and a mery, of the nature of the iiij. ... whiche Interlude, yf
the hole matter be playd, ... matters whiche be in this Interlude ..."
5. The Homophonic Forms of Musical Composition: An Exhaustive Treatise on the by Percy Goetschius (1898)
"*1; (Interlude.) J (Repetition.) *2) Tr ' r BEETHOVEN. ... Nothing more than such
a distinctly unessential interlude could intervene between a Phrase and ..."
6. The Tudor Drama: A History of English National Drama to the Retirement of by Tucker Brooke (1911)
"(However, the term "interlude" came more and more to be employed during the ...
If a distinction between morality and interlude is at all to be drawn on the ..."
7. The Book Collector's Guide: A Practical Handbook of British and American by Seymour de Ricci (1921)
"A pretty new Interlude both pithy and pleasant of the Story of King Darius. ...
A new and merry Interlude called the Trial of Treasure. ..."
8. Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes (1895)
"Interlude. The Poet's Tale: The Birds of Killing- The Spanish Jew's Second Tale:
... Interlude. The Landlord's Tale: The Rhyme of Finale. Sir Christopher. ..."
9. Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages by Percy Society (1848)
"A new Interlude and a mery, of the nature of the iiij. ... whiche Interlude, yf
the hole matter be playd, ... matters whiche be in this Interlude ..."
10. The Homophonic Forms of Musical Composition: An Exhaustive Treatise on the by Percy Goetschius (1898)
"*1; (Interlude.) J (Repetition.) *2) Tr ' r BEETHOVEN. ... Nothing more than such
a distinctly unessential interlude could intervene between a Phrase and ..."
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