All 5 Uses

interlude
in
Moby Dick
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It came in as a sort of brief interlude and solo between more extensive performances.†
Chpt 1-3 *
Of those fine cavaliers, the young Dons, Pedro and Sebastian, were on the closer terms with me; and hence the interluding questions they occasionally put, and which are duly answered at the time.†
Chpt 52-54
When this interlude was over, Captain Mayhew began a dark story concerning Moby Dick; not, however, without frequent interruptions from Gabriel, whenever his name was mentioned, and the crazy sea that seemed leagued with him.†
Chpt 70-72
As, after this interlude, the seamen resumed their work upon the jacket of the whale, many strange things were hinted in reference to this wild affair.†
Chpt 70-72
Often, in mild, pleasant weather, for twelve, fifteen, eighteen, and twenty hours on the stretch, they were engaged in the boats, steadily pulling, or sailing, or paddling after the whales, or for an interlude of sixty or seventy minutes calmly awaiting their uprising; though with but small success for their pains.†
Chpt 112-114

Definitions:

(1) (interlude)
a break or intervening period between main events; in theatre or music, a short performance between acts of a play or movements of a musical piece

More rarely, an interlude may not be shorter than the periods surrounding it, but may be less significant, as in "the quiet summer interlude between political conventions."
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)