- Bluffs
- Fakes
- Feigns
- Makes believe
- Play-acts
- Interval between acts of a play
- A short ballet, or other entertainment, between the
acts of a play.
- Break
- A short entertainment exhibited on the stage between the
acts of a play, or between the play and the afterpiece, to relieve the
tedium of waiting.
- A form of English drama or play, usually short, merry,
and farcical, which succeeded the Moralities or Moral Plays in the
transition to the romantic or Elizabethan drama.
- A short piece of instrumental music played between the
parts of a song or cantata, or the acts of a drama; especially, in
church music, a short passage played by the organist between the
stanzas of a hymn, or in German chorals after each line.
- A short musical dramatic piece, of a light and pleasing,
sometimes a burlesque, character; an interlude introduced between the
acts of a play or an opera.