afterpiece

== English == === Etymology === From after- +‎ piece. === Noun === afterpiece (plural afterpieces) (now chiefly historical) An additional work following the main work; especially, a minor entertainment performed after a play. [from 17th c.] 1793, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 225: There was a silly after-piece called Carnarvon Castle, or, The Birth of the Prince of Wales. (nautical) The heel of a rudder. [from 18th c.] ==== Translations ====