"afterpiece" meaning in English

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          "text": "To preface much concerning these little after-pieces of Poetry, I hold needlesse, having spoke my mind so fully before.",
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          "text": "The idea of farces, or after-pieces, tho’ an inferior branch of the Drama, is, in fact, among the refinements of an improved age.",
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          "ref": "1793, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 225",
          "text": "There was a silly after-piece called Carnarvon Castle, or, The Birth of the Prince of Wales."
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          "ref": "1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 257-258:",
          "text": "[…] let us have a play entire from beginning to end; so as it be a German play, no matter what, with a good tricking, shifting after-piece, and a figure-dance, and a horn-pipe, and a song between the acts.",
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          "text": "The policeman, perceiving that the interest of the entire group of spectators was centred upon himself and Lorison […] was fain to prolong the situation—which reflected his own importance—by a little afterpiece of philosophical comment.",
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          "word": "jälkinäytös"
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        "The heel of a rudder."
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        "(nautical) The heel of a rudder."
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