afterpiece
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.12 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An additional work following the main work; especially, a minor entertainment performed after a play.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
From after- + piece.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: after