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AFTERPIECE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A brief dramatic piece (usually comic) presented after a play
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("afterpiece" is a kind of...):
piece (an artistic or literary composition)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "afterpiece"):
exode (a farcical afterpiece in the ancient Roman theater)