Etymology Borrowed from French encore (“more, again”), and once used in this sense.
1
A brief extra performance, done after the main performance is complete.
To play an encore.
Can I get an encore? We want more!
2
A call or demand (as by continued applause) for a repeat performance.
The encores were numerous.
encore
intj
Etymology Borrowed from French encore (“more, again”), and once used in this sense.
1
Please perform again!
Said by audience members after a performance
encore
verb
Etymology Borrowed from French encore (“more, again”), and once used in this sense.
1
To call for an extra performance or repetition of, or by.
to encore a performer
to encore a song
2
To call for an encore.
3
To perform an encore.
In youth we encore the sentiment, 'Oh, bless my country, Heaven! he said, and died:' but, as we advance in life, we think, 'How weak it is to pity Cato's case, Who might have lived, and had a handsome place!'1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “An Allusion to the Past”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 49:
They encored with a cover of the Beatles' “Blackbird,” “The Bigger You Love” in 1970, and “Ha Ha Ha” in early '71.2011, Bill Dahl, Motown: The Golden Years: More than 100 rare photographs, page 304:
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Truly unbelievable. Left us all gasping for breath, and wanting more. I think they encored twice, but twenty encores would have been too few.2011, Smitty Herron, Music's Golden Frontier: