finale
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If you decide to leave the theater early to beat traffic, you’ll miss the finale — the exciting final part of a theatrical performance.
Perhaps to ensure that audience members stay until the end, many musical and theatrical pieces end with an elaborate flourish known as the finale. (If it’s truly spectacular, it might even be called a “grand finale.”) Appropriately, the pronunciation of finale contains a final flourish that you just can’t miss: the letter e, which you might expect to be silent, is pronounced. The last two syllables of finale rhyme with alley.
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the closing section of a musical composition
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the concluding part of any performance
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synonyms:
close, closing curtain, finis
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the temporal end; the concluding time
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synonyms:
close, conclusion, finis, finish, last, stopping point
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