Definition of Afterpiece

1. Noun. A brief dramatic piece (usually comic) presented after a play.

Generic synonyms: Piece
Specialized synonyms: Exode

Definition of Afterpiece

1. n. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.

Definition of Afterpiece

1. Noun. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment. ¹

2. Noun. (nautical) The heel of a rudder. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Afterpiece

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Afterpiece

afternoon tea
afternoon teas
afternoone
afternoones
afternoons
afternote
afternotes
afterpain
afterpains
afterpart
afterparties
afterparty
afterpeak
afterpeaks
afterperception
afterpiece (current term)
afterpieces
afterpotential
afterpotentials
afterpulse
afterpulses
afterpulsing
afters
afterschool
aftersee
afterseen
aftersensation
afterset
aftershaft
aftershafted

Literary usage of Afterpiece

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1864)
"OF THE afterpiece, WHICH PROVED STILL MORE TRAGICAL. VOLTAIRE, once safe on Saxon ground, ... afterpiece ..."

2. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1898)
"As Voltaire himself will experience, to his cost! CHAPTER XII OF THE afterpiece, WHICH PROVED STILL MORE TRAGICAL VOLTAIRE, once safe on Saxon ground, ..."

3. My Friends and Acquaintance: Being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal by Peter George Patmore (1854)
"THE third and last of these posthumous dramas of Bichard Brinsley Sheridan is what was called, at the period of its composition, "A Musical afterpiece;" and ..."

4. History of Friedrich the Second: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1885)
"... CHAPTER XIL OF THE afterpiece, WHICH PROVED STILL MORE TRAGICAL VOLTAIRE, once safe on Saxon ground, was in no extreme baste for ..."

5. The Oxford Treasury of English Literature by Grace Eleanor Hadow (1907)
"CHAPTER VI AN afterpiece IT usually happens that the end of an artistic period is marked by a decadence of invention. Sometimes it becomes erudite, ..."

6. Memoirs of Doctor Burney by Fanny Burney (1832)
"... from which no real fame could either accrue, or be marred ; it was translating, and adapting to the stage, the little pastoral afterpiece of Rousseau, ..."

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