postlude
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpəʊstluːd/
Noun
postlude (plural postludes)
Translations
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 2005, p. 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.
- 2003, Clive James, ‘Larkin Treads the Boards’, The Meaning of Recognition, Picador 2005, p. 95:
External links
Postlude in the 1905 edition of the New International Encyclopedia.
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