From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcodaco‧da /ˈkəʊdə $ ˈkoʊ-/ noun [countable] 1 APMan additional separate part at the end of a piece of music2 ALa separate piece of writing at the end of a work of literature or a speech
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coda• The show is a coda to Uglow's exhibition at the Kolner Kunstverein this autumn.• A coda to a Wagner song finds Cynthia Loemij winding down as the set is dismantled by stagehands.• Even so, the final forty seconds of the film provided a fascinating little coda on all that had happened.• It was a natural coda in his story.• At the coda it repeats the B section groove until the fade.• The finale itself is a bit on the slow side, increasingly so during the coda.• It is the coda of the executioner, the knell of bloody doom.Origin coda (1700-1800) Italian Latin cauda “tail” 