Re-prise
noun
1.
Usually, reprises. Law. an annual deduction, duty, or payment out of a manor or estate, as an annuity or the like.
2.
Music.
a.
a repetition.
b.
a return to the first theme or subject.
verb (used with object)
3.
to execute a repetition of; repeat: They reprised the elaborate dance number in the third act.
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| —n | |
| 1. | the repeating of an earlier theme |
| —vb | |
| 2. | to repeat (an earlier theme) |
| [C14: from Old French, from reprendre to take back, from Latin reprehendere; see | |
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Word Origin & History
reprise
early 15c., "yearly deduction from charges upon a manor or estate," from O.Fr. reprise "act of taking back," fem. of repris, pp. of reprendre "take back," from L. reprendere (see reprisal). Meaning "resumption of an action" is from 1680s. Musical sense is from 1879. The
verb is attested from mid-15c.
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