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postlude
/ˈpəʊstluːd/
noun 2verb 1
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1POSTLUDE + NOUN
lolita
Definitions
noun
1
The final part of a piece; especially music played (normally on the organ) at the end of a church service.
In the Sibelian world of song, then, postludes would inevitably sound redundant or extraneous.
2
A concluding passage of text or speech; an epilogue or afterword.
This was Nabokov’s postlude to Lolita, where he relates the book’s genesis.
verb
1
To form a postlude (to); to end with a postlude.
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.
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In the Sibelian world of song, then, postludes would inevitably sound redundant or extraneous.
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This was Nabokov’s postlude to Lolita, where he relates the book’s genesis.
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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
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