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encore noun [ ˈɒŋkɔː ]

• a repeated or additional performance of an item at the end of a concert, as called for by an audience.
• "everybody got up on stage for the final encore"
Similar: repeat performance, extra performance, additional performance, replay, repeat, repetition, curtain call,

encore exclamation

• again! (as called by an audience at the end of a concert).
• "it was Louis who shouted ‘Bravo! Encore!’"

encore verb

• call for a repeated or additional performance of (an item) at the end of a concert.
• "several arias were encored"
Origin: early 18th century: French, literally ‘still, again’.


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