Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In music: The first air sung by any one of the principal singers in an opera; an entrance-air.
- noun Same as
postlude .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The air sung by any of the principal characters in an opera on entering.
- noun A closing voluntary; a postlude.
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Examples
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Again, _quæ erant omnibus sortita_ is very difficult.
The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Nunc Vero et hae partes sunt latius lustratae, et alia quarta pars per Americum Vesputium (ut in sequentibus audietur) inventa est quam non video cur quis jure vetet ab Americo inventore sagacis ingenii viro Amerigen quasi Americi terram, sive Americam dicendam: cum et Europa et Asia a mulieribus sua sortita sint nomina.
Introductory American History Elbert Jay Benton
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Roma uiro regnumque orbis sortita iacebat. quid referam Cannas admotaque moenibus arma, postque tuos, Trasimene, lacus Fabiumque morantem
The Rule of Fate 1912
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Arbe, hæc est autem eadem Hebron olim Metropolis Philistinorum, ab vno filiorum Caleb sortita vocabulum.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Alex de la Orastie & Laura - Mandro tu imi esti sortita (5: 03) 3.
Fulldls.com 2008
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Alex de la Orastie & Laura - Mandro tu imi esti sortita (5: 03) 3.
Fulldls.com 2008
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Alex de la Orastie & Laura - Mandro tu imi esti sortita (5: 03) 3.
Fulldls.com 2008
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Nomen habet à glacie) Tria nomina consequenter sortita est
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Nomen habet � glacie) Tria nomina consequenter sortita est
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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sibilet in tumulis et super ossa cubet. nam gemina est sedes turpem sortita per amnem, 55
Cynthia Dead 1912
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