postlude
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English
Etymology
From post- + Latin lūdus (“play”) (modelled on prelude).
Pronunciation
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
Verb
postlude (third-person singular simple present postludes, present participle postluding, simple past and past participle postluded)
- (rare) To form a postlude (to); to end with a postlude.
- 2003, Clive James, ‘Larkin Treads the Boards’, The Meaning of Recognition, Picador, published 2005, page 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.
Further reading
Postlude in the 1905 edition of the New International Encyclopedia.
