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Definition of Afterpiece
1. Noun. A brief dramatic piece (usually comic) presented after a play.
Definition of Afterpiece
1. n. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
Definition of Afterpiece
1. Noun. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment. ¹
2. Noun. (nautical) The heel of a rudder. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Afterpiece
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Afterpiece
Literary usage of Afterpiece
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1864)
"OF THE afterpiece, WHICH PROVED STILL MORE TRAGICAL. VOLTAIRE, once safe on Saxon
ground, ... afterpiece ..."
2. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1898)
"As Voltaire himself will experience, to his cost! CHAPTER XII OF THE afterpiece,
WHICH PROVED STILL MORE TRAGICAL VOLTAIRE, once safe on Saxon ground, ..."
3. My Friends and Acquaintance: Being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal by Peter George Patmore (1854)
"THE third and last of these posthumous dramas of Bichard Brinsley Sheridan is
what was called, at the period of its composition, "A Musical afterpiece;" and ..."
4. History of Friedrich the Second: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1885)
"... CHAPTER XIL OF THE afterpiece, WHICH PROVED STILL MORE TRAGICAL VOLTAIRE, once
safe on Saxon ground, was in no extreme baste for ..."
5. The Oxford Treasury of English Literature by Grace Eleanor Hadow (1907)
"CHAPTER VI AN afterpiece IT usually happens that the end of an artistic period
is marked by a decadence of invention. Sometimes it becomes erudite, ..."
6. Memoirs of Doctor Burney by Fanny Burney (1832)
"... from which no real fame could either accrue, or be marred ; it was translating,
and adapting to the stage, the little pastoral afterpiece of Rousseau, ..."
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