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noun

Afterpiece n.

A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.

(Naut.) The heel of a rudder.

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Etymology of 'Afterpiece'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Afterpiece" Quotes from Famous Books

... o'clock the curtain drew up, and discovered a scene painted with such taste as would not have disgraced any theatre in London. The play was the 'Apprentice,' with the 'Mayor of Garret' as an afterpiece, performed by the officers of the ship and of the artillery, and went off in high style, applauded, as it deserved to be applauded, with the loudest acclamations. The quarter-deck of a British line-of-battle ship has often enough been ...

— The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815 • G. R. Gleig

... who was a genuine Boniface. It was migration of peoples, the last advance of Asiatic races towards Europe, followed only by the fruitless attempts of those under Attila, Zenghis Khan, and Timur, and as a comic afterpiece, by the gipsies,—it was this movement which swept away the humanity of the ancients. Christianity was precisely the principle which set itself to work against this savagery; just as later, through the whole of the Middle Age, the Church and its hierarchy were most necessary to set limits ...

— The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Religion, A Dialogue, Etc. • Arthur Schopenhauer

Words linked to "Afterpiece" : exode