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companion piece

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noun

a literary or musical work that has a close relationship to another work by the same author or composer.

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Nearby words

companion, companion animal, companion artery to sciatic nerve, companion cell, companion ladder, companion piece, companion planting, companion set, companion star, companion vein, companionable

Origin of companion piece

First recorded in 1835–45

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for companion piece

This very amiable bit of advice is a companion-piece to the panegyric upon the prince's father written about twelve years before.
Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam|Ephraim Emerton
Probably Donnes verses were written as a companion-piece to the present poem.
Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age|Various
This fragment is a companion-piece to the engraved fac-simile of a page of Pope's Homer, in this volume.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. II (of 3)|Isaac Disraeli
John Leech, who so reveled in the "Camps at Cobham," would here have found a companion-piece for the opposition of the picture.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals|T. C. DeLeon

The companion-piece to the portrait of my future husband was the portrait of his future wife.
Embarrassments|Henry James