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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A simplified spelling of epilogue.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of epilogue.

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  • noun a short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play
  • noun a short passage added at the end of a literary work

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Examples

  • Beaches filled with sewerage: what a fitting 'epilog' to the decadent design and development tale that was Dubai.

    TreeHugger 2009

  • Writer Jason Aaron (Scalped) and artist Ron Garney (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN) bring you a searing 4-part epilog to the biggest X-Men Event in a decade.

    X-Men: Divided We Stand – Revealed | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • A somewhat unnecessary prolog and epilog has now been tacked on, but not tackily, smoothly enough that it didn't ruin the story.

    Will You Go See Avatar? 2009

  • Other than a few mumbly scenes between Hanks and Hoffman where the dialog was difficult to understand, I thought it was a decent movie, with a few downright funny bits, and a somber epilog.

    The end is near : Bev Vincent 2008

  • You've written an epilog to a book that you wrote 18 years ago.

    CNN Transcript Feb 21, 2009 2009

  • Now this seismic shift in oil prices and the economy have prompted our next guest Daniel Yergin to add a brand new epilog to his Pulitzer Prize winning book "The Prize."

    CNN Transcript Feb 21, 2009 2009

  • Ralph Fiennes provides the wrap around and does so in an effective manner, in the reunion with his daughter, his involvement with the older Hanna and in an epilog of sorts with a concentration camp victim, played by Lena Olin, whose book about being a survivor is what did Hanna in so many years earlier.

    Michael Russnow: The Reader is a Surprising Film: Nazis Can Be Sympathetic, Though Not Forgiven 2009

  • Now this seismic shift in oil prices and the economy have prompted our next guest Daniel Yergin to add a brand new epilog to his Pulitzer Prize winning book "The Prize."

    CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2009 2009

  • You've written an epilog to a book that you wrote 18 years ago.

    CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2009 2009

  • An epilogue, or epilog, is a piece of writing at the end of a work of literature or drama, usually used to bring closure to the work.

    Hey, big guy ... Frank Wilson 2008

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