postlude
English
Etymology
From post- + (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ludus (“play”) (modelled on prelude).
Pronunciation
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Noun
postlude (plural postludes)
- (music) The final part of a piece; especially music played (normally on the organ) at the end of a church service.
- A concluding passage of text or speech; an epilogue or afterword.
Translations
final part of a musical piece
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Verb
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- (rare) To form a postlude (to); to end with a postlude.
- 2003, Clive James, ‘Larkin Treads the Boards’, The Meaning of Recognition, Picador 2005, p. 95:
- Mercifully never preceded by a drum-roll or postluded by a curtsey for applause, each poem seemed to arise from the surrounding prose, which Courtenay was successfully endeavouring to make sound as if it was being thought up on the spot.
- 2003, Clive James, ‘Larkin Treads the Boards’, The Meaning of Recognition, Picador 2005, p. 95: