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Musical piece at the end of a church service
Answer for the clue "Musical piece at the end of a church service ", 8 letters:
postlude
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Word definitions for postlude in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1821, from post- + ending abstracted from prelude .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Postlude \Post"lude\, n. [Pref. post- + -lude, as in prelude.] (Med.) A voluntary at the end of a service.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context music English) The final part of a piece; especially music played (normally on the organ) at the end of a church service. 2 A concluding passage of text or speech; an epilogue or afterword. vb. (context rare English) To form a postlude (to); ...
Usage examples of postlude.
With the conventional accompaniment of rattle and postlude of rictus and liquidity.
As the organ pealed the postlude, Eleanor left the pew without waiting for her father to usher her to the foyer.
She skipped the little postlude and rose impatiently, letting Rafaella put her harp away.
Homeric, a humanly convincing postlude to a strained and ominously failed day.
During the postlude she would point out her choices to Queenie and Sister, and all three would hurry off to capture the men before anyone else got to them.