interlude

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun an intervening period or episode
noun a brief show (music or dance etc) inserted between the sections of a longer performance
verb perform an interlude

Latin inter- (“between”) + ludo (“to play”)

Then he came out, bringing out from that festive interlude the face of a man who had drunk at the very Fountain of Sorrow. — The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale, Joseph Conrad
Of those fine cavaliers, the young Dons, Pedro and Sebastian, were on the closer terms with me; and hence the interluding questions they occasionally put, and which are duly answered at the time. — Moby Dick; Or, The Whale, Herman Melville
V Thirty miles south of this rolling volcanic interlude the pristine Rockies, as if in shame of their moment of gorgeous softness, rear in contrast their sharpest and most heroic monument of bristling granite. — The Book of the National Parks, Robert Sterling Yard

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