intermission
/ɪntɚˈmɪʃən/ noun B1- A break, especially between two performances or sessions, such as at a concert, play, seminar, or religious assembly. · We ordered some drinks for the intermission.
Plural intermissions
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The rain continued the whole evening without intermission; Jane certainly could not come back.
When the ladies returned to the drawing-room, there was little to be done but to hear Lady Catherine talk, which she did without any intermission till coffee came in, delivering her opinion on every subject in so decisive a manner as proved that she was not used to have her judgment controverted.
But they were entirely ignorant of what had passed; and their raptures continued, with little intermission, to the very day of Lydia’s leaving home.
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