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encore

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1. encore - Noun

2. encore - Verb

3. encore - Adverb

4. encore - Interjection

Meaning

Once more; again; -- used by the auditors and spectators of plays, concerts, and other entertainments, to call for a repetition of a particular part.

A call or demand (as, by continued applause) for a repetition; as, the encores were numerous.

To call for a repetition or reappearance of; as, to encore a song or a singer.

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Actually, after the release of the Bond film, the producers came back to me to offer me another one, but I didn't have any juice left for an immediate encore. Roger Spottiswoode

I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore. Liz Phair

I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three. Florence Welch

I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them. Florence Welch

The rabbis paled. I'd managed to terrify holy men. Maybe I could beat up a nun for an encore. Ilona Andrews

Son intelligence rendait sa splendeur encore plus terrifiante. Amelie Nothomb

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