Contextualizebeta

afterpiece

noun

Etymology

From after- + piece.

  1. derived from *kʷezdis✻ — “piece, portion, quota”
  2. derived from *pettyā✻
  3. derived from petia
  4. derived from piece
  5. inherited from pece
  6. prefixed as afterpiece — “after + piece”

Definitions

  1. An additional work following the main work

    An additional work following the main work; especially, a minor entertainment performed after a play.

    • 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.

  2. The heel of a rudder.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for afterpiece. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA