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curtain call

  1. a call, usually by continued applause, for the performers to return to the stage at the end of a play, act, etc.
  2. such a return, acknowledging the applause

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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