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Words in a play spoken to the audience alone, conventionally unheard by the other characters on stage. For example: Cordelia (aside): ‘What shall Cordelia speak?’ Many other characters in Shakespeare's King Lear are on stage, but the aside is intended for the audience alone to understand her feelings.



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Before the doctor had come in, she had glanced at it, and had thrown it aside in her impatience to read what Cecilia had written.
I Say No by Collins, Wilkie View in context
So sensible were the audience of some unwonted attribute in their minister, that they longed for a breath of wind to blow aside the veil, almost believing that a stranger's visage would be discovered, though the form, gesture, and voice were those of Mr.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
When the heavy load was laid aside, song rose naturally from the lips.
A Lute of Jade by Cranmer-Byng, L. View in context
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