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an extra or repeated performance — especially of music given in response to audience demand- The audience loved the performance and called for one encore after another.
encore = an extra or repeated performance — especially of music given in response to audience demand
- The President has been very successful in his first term, but what will he do for an encore?
- No return engagements. No encore.Jay Asher -- Thirteen Reasons Why
- Scrawled there in Liz's block lettering is the last song before we leave for the inevitable encore.Gayle Forman -- Where She Went
- Theresa gave an encore; the family leaned over the rail like operagoers, glorying in the sound.Gish Jen -- Typical American
- Then laugh aloud, and cry encore!Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
- " 'Jeune encore,' as the French say.Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
- As a valentine to the appreciative crowd, Ma and Ax encore with a selection from Mendelssohn's Song Without Words, then take their bows.Steve Lopez -- The Soloist
- The roar of applause came from thousands of shimmering purple ghosts, the Lares of Rome brought back for an encore performance.Rick Riordan -- The Mark of Athena
- Outside our door, a rock concert was demanding its encore: Amy!Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
- Revenez vers dix heures, encore mieux demain.Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
- He was standing again well dressed, smiling, good-natured, the recipient of encores for a good story.Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
- So don't ask for an encore."Rick Riordan -- The Blood of Olympus
- After this a gentleman sang a song called Bid me Good-bye, and as an encore obliged with Sing me to Sleep.W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
- "More, more!" said Lucy, when the duet had been encored.George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
- That's the end in the beginning and there's no encore.Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man
- The audience demanded an encore.Li Cunxin -- Mao's Last Dancer
- He turned his head gently back toward the stage, where an encore was being played.Eudora Welty -- The Golden Apples
- I felt prouder than you did when it was encored.Lucy Maud Montgomery -- Anne Of Green Gables
- He turned his head gently back toward the stage, where an encore was being played.Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
encore = extra or repeated performance — especially of music given in response to audience demand