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Definition of "entr'acte" [en•tr'acte]

  • The interval between two acts of a theatrical performance. (noun)
  • Another performance, as of music or dance, provided between two acts of a theatrical performance. (noun)
  • An interval likened to the one occurring between two acts of a drama. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "entr'acte" in a sentence
  • "As an entr'acte, if you will, to our series about Catholic Bamberg - which will definitely be continued - today we visit another treasure of Catholic Germany closer to my home Berlin, which I visited last Sunday: the former Cistercian Abbey of Neuzelle ( "New Cell") in the state of Brandenburg."
  • "After our entr'acte visiting Neuzelle Abbey, we resume our series on Catholic Bamberg with what is its ecclesial heart: Bamberg Cathedral, seat of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Bamberg, and one of Germany's most important Imperial cathedrals."
  • "The second act, unlike the first, is bulletproof from entr'acte to curtain calls."