Meaning of afterpiece | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An additional work following the main work; especially, a minor entertainment performed after a play.
   historical
2. The heel of a rudder.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“There was a silly after-piece called Carnarvon Castle, or, The Birth of the Prince of Wales.”

“[…] 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.”

“The policeman, perceiving that the interest of the entire group of spectators was centred upon himself and Lorison […] was fain to prolong the situation—which reflected his own importance—by a little afterpiece of philosophical comment.”

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