reprise
- Usually reprises. Law. an annual deduction, duty, or payment out of a manor or estate, as an annuity or the like.
- Music.
- a repetition.
- a return to the first theme or subject.
- to execute a repetition of; repeat: They reprised the elaborate dance number in the third act.
Origin of reprise
Related Words for reprise
restate, renew, repeat, echo, recite, rehash, reiterate, replay, summary, peroration, regain, recover, rescue, deliver, free, redeem, extricate, release, manumit, saveExamples from the Web for reprise
Contemporary Examples of reprise
This week, he had Brian Williams reprise his role as newsman-turned-jazzman.
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She has signed on to reprise her role as Jackie Kennedy in the Reelz drama, The Kennedys: After Camelot.
Jack Nicholson was also approached to reprise his role as the Joker.
Christian Bale was reportedly offered $50 million to reprise the role of Batman in Superman vs. Batman.
The vice president has to be himself, not a reprise of a miscast LBJ.
Historical Examples of reprise
The French have two words for these two sounds—the cri and the reprise.
The Mother's Manual of Children's DiseasesCharles West, M.D.
This is followed by the reprise of the first and second subjects.
Contemporary American ComposersRupert Hughes
The reprise of the dance was brief, and he had to surrender her from his embrace.
The Cup of FuryRupert Hughes
And at the very spot on the floor where any object contained in the bowl would have fallen, came a reprise of the bell note!
Bat WingSax Rohmer
This is gradually appassionated until it is merged into the reprise of the first movement proper.
Contemporary American ComposersRupert Hughes
reprise
- the repeating of an earlier theme
- to repeat (an earlier theme)
Word Origin for reprise
Word Origin and History for reprise
late 14c., "yearly deduction from charges upon a manor or estate," from Old French reprise "act of taking back" (13c.), fem. of repris, past participle of reprendre "take back," from Latin reprendere, earlier reprehendere, earlier reprehendere (see reprehend). Meaning "resumption of an action" is from 1680s. Musical sense is from 1879.
early 15c., from Old French repris, past participle of reprendre (see reprise (v.)).