intermède

[in-ter-meed]

noun

1. a performance that serves as an interlude between other performances, historically one including music and dancing between acts in French theatre of the late Renaissance; entr'acte.

Example Sentences

November 24.—I authorise the Th��tre Fran�ais to play to-morrow, Friday, the 25th, on behalf of the victims of the war, the fifth act of "Hernani" by the actors of the Th��tre Fran�ais and the last act of "Lucrece Borgia" by the actors of the Porte Saint Martin, and in addition the recitation as an intermede of extracts from Les Ch�timents, Les Contemplations and La L�gende des Si�cles.

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