postlude

noun

1. The final part of a piece; especially music played (normally on the organ) at the end of a church service.

   “In the Sibelian world of song, then, postludes would inevitably sound redundant or extraneous.”

2. A concluding passage of text or speech; an epilogue or afterword.

   “This was Nabokov’s postlude to Lolita, where he relates the book’s genesis.”

verb

1. (rare)To form a postlude (to); to end with a postlude.

   “Mercifully never preceded by a drum-roll or postluded by a curtsey for applause, each poem seemed to arise from the surrounding prose, which Courtenay was successfully endeavouring to make sound as if it was being thought up on the spot.”