Did you mayhaps mean one of these? entrees, extremes
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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A relish or a dainty dish served at table between the principal courses.
- n. A short dramatic entertainment, with or without music, originally on an allegorical or heroic subject, later of a burlesque character: first used in the thirteenth century; probably the germ of the modern opera.
- n. A short entertainment, musical or not, inserted between parts of a larger work; an interlude or entr'acte.
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“He thought that a compromise between the two entremes was feasible, by which a certain element of picturesqueness might be introduced into our programmes without exposing us to the charge of deliberately seeking to denationalise ourselves.”
“First came the _loa_, a kind of prologue; then the _entremes_, a kind of interlude or farce; and last, the”
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
“‘Intermess’ is employed by Evelyn, and is the Spanish ‘entremes’, though not recognized as such in our dictionaries.”
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