Other forms: encores
An encore is the extra song a band plays when the audience's cheering brings them back. Play an encore, two encores, the crowd wanted an encore.
The ritual is thoroughly staged in most concerts: the encore is on the set list and everybody knows it, which does not stop it working. It is pronounced ON-cor. In French, encore means again, and it is what an English-speaking audience shouts — French audiences shout bis. Note the verb, to encore, which is rare, and that a two-song encore is now more common than one.
1nounencoreAn extra performance given after the audience calls for it.
“The encore was longer than the last three songs together.”
encore is an extra performance.
French encore simply means again or still. English took the word as the thing shouted and turned it into a noun for the performance, which French never did — so the English encore is a French word doing an English job.
French
encore — more, again
English, today
encore
Borrowed from French encore (“more, again”), and once used in this sense.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA