Both Uses of
interlude
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- 'Oh!' said the manager, 'the little ballet interlude.†
Chpt 23 *
- 'Heigho!' sighed Nicholas, as he threw himself back in the prompter's chair, after telegraphing the needful directions to Smike, who had been playing a meagre tailor in the interlude, with one skirt to his coat, and a little pocket-handkerchief with a large hole in it, and a woollen nightcap, and a red nose, and other distinctive marks peculiar to tailors on the stage.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
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(interlude) a short period with an activity different than that occurring during longer periods before or after it
or:
music: brief music played between longer sections of a musical work