encore

What it means

1. A brief extra performance, done after the main performance is complete.

   To play an encore.

   1 more example

   Can I get an encore? We want more!

2. A call or demand (as by continued applause) for a repeat performance.

   The encores were numerous.

In a sentence

To play an encore.

Where it comes from

1. Frenchencore“more, again”
2. Englishencore

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