Interlude

n.	1.
	1.	A short entertainment exhibited on the stage between the acts of a play, or between the play and the afterpiece, to relieve the tedium of waiting. Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes When monarch reason sleeps. - Dryden.
	2.	A form of English drama or play, usually short, merry, and farcical, which succeeded the Moralities or Moral Plays in the transition to the romantic or Elizabethan drama.
	3.	(Mus.) A short piece of instrumental music played between the parts of a song or cantata, or the acts of a drama; especially, in church music, a short passage played by the organist between the stanzas of a hymn, or in German chorals after each line.
	4.	Any intervening period of time, space, etc.; a pause between phases of an activity.

Noun	1.	interlude - an intervening period or episode
	2.	interlude - a brief show (music or dance etc) performed between the sections of another performance Synonyms: entr'acte, intermezzo
Verb	1.	interlude - perform an interlude; "The guitar player interluded with a beautiful improvisation"

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