postlude

English

Etymology

From post- +‎ Latin lūdus (“play”) (modelled on prelude).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊstluːd/

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.
- 1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, Vintage (2019), page 313:
  This was Nabokov’s postlude to Lolita, where he relates the book’s genesis.

Translations

final part of a musical piece

Catalan: postludi m
French: postlude (fr) m
German: Postludium (de) n, Nachspiel (de) n
Hungarian: utójáték (hu)

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.