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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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