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- noun Attributive form of
curtain call
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Examples
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Indeed, the effect is so good that the whole cast repeats it at the curtain-call.
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"A Fox on the Fairway" even borrows blatantly from the playwright's own manual, reusing a curtain-call reenactment gimmick from his "Lend Me a Tenor."
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Musicianship of this order is a huge inspiration to dancers, and the cheers that greeted Higgins's brief curtain-call were earned many times over.
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Rosalie received her curtain-call boos in an outfit by the Japanese designer, but his magic touch turned out to be untransferable.
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Rosalie received her curtain-call boos in an outfit by the Japanese designer, but his magic touch turned out to be untransferable.
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This represents the richly-deserved and gravely overdue final curtain-call for "The One-Third Lie": the much quoted - but UTTERLY FALSE proposition that: "one-third of all road accidents is caused by speed".
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This represents the richly-deserved and gravely overdue final curtain-call for "The One-Third Lie": the much quoted - but UTTERLY FALSE proposition that: "one-third of all road accidents is caused by speed".
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Instead of the clapping of many hands and a curtain-call, which had pleased me very much last winter, my applause today came in a less noisy way, but was quite as satisfying.
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The flowers that she carried when she answered the final curtain-call, curiously enough, were damask roses and mignonette.
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But there will be no end-of-career lucrative curtain-call for Ronaldo, who exits the stage having entertained football fans around the world for over 15 years with some breathtaking performances, only one of which involved a trio of transvestites he ended up with by mistake.
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