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- noun Plural form of
afterpiece .
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Examples
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As often, Wolcot published the eponymous main piece in a slim quarto followed by a number of more strictly humorous afterpieces (to borrow an analogy from the theater), among which An Ode to the
'Manlius to Peter Pindar':Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s 2006
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These amusements were always accompanied with the music and dancing so dear to the Italian peoples, and it is easy to divine how they may have gradually developed into plays of a rude but tolerably fixed type, with improvised dialogue, acted in the streets, or later in the intervals between acts at the theatre, and eventually as afterpieces, more after our own fashion.
Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884
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Admitted to the stage, they naturally took the place of interludes or afterpieces.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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Many afterpieces of the Lyceum by the _same company_ have already attacked this "Augean _Stable_" -- and Johnson, in his prologue against
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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It serves admirably, however, for a parody of the stilted style of false tragical emphasis; its use, too, is much to be recommended in some kinds of Comedy, especially in small afterpieces.
Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature August Wilhelm Schlegel 1806
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[3] Mrs. Clive's four afterpieces, with their allusions to her personality and career, are equally revealing.
The Case of Mrs. Clive Catherine Clive 1748
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