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Another word for interlude

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Noun

  1. A recess

    See also:

    recess

    pause

    delay

  2. A short play or musical piece performed during an interlude, sense 1

    See also:

    music

    drama

    comedy

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Sentence Examples

  • At this period occurs a curious interlude in Moldavian history.

  • (the beautiful version of the story of the nightingale's death) is translated from Strada; while the scheme of the tedious interlude exhibiting the various forms of madness is avowedly taken, together with sundry comments, from Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy.

  • The Austro-Prussian alliance had been only an interlude in tile great drama in which the two powers were playing rivul parts.

  • His Sicilian war (278-276)1 was a mere interlude between the two acts of his war with Rome.

  • The more imaginative, elfin quality, familiar in Dunbar's Ballad of Kynd Kittok and his Interlude of the Droichis Part appears in such pieces as Gyre Carling (the mother-witch), King Berdok, and Lichtounis Dreme.

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