Etymology

encore

en·core
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Today it means: A brief extra performance, done after the main performance is complete. Full definition →

French encore
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromencore“more, again”
  2. English todayencore

Borrowed from French encore (“more, again”), and once used in this sense.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.