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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a farcical afterpiece in the ancient Roman theater;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Exode \Ex"ode\n. [L. exodium, Gr. ? (sc. ? song) fr. ? belonging to an exit, or to the finale of a tragedy, fr. ?: cf. F. exode. See Exodus.] 1. Departure; exodus; esp., the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. [Obs.] --L. Coleman. --Bolingbroke. [1913 Webster] 2. (Gr. Drama) The final chorus; the catastrophe. [1913 Webster] 3. (Rom. Antiq.) An afterpiece of a comic description, either a farce or a travesty. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

exode n 1: a farcical afterpiece in the ancient Roman theater