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    [Noun]  | "de*noue*ment" | \ ˌdā-ˌnü-ˈmäⁿ \


    1: the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a novel, play, film, etc.

    2: the outcome of a complex sequence of events


    Origin: 1705 ;

     French dénouement, literally, untying, from Middle French desnouement, from desnouer to untie, from Old French desnoer, from des- de- + noer to tie, from Latin nodare, from nodus knot {mat|node|};

    [Noun]  | "denouement" 


    1: the final part of something (such as a book, a play, or a series of events);


      * e.g., " ... In the play's denouement, the two lovers kill themselves. "





     [ "denouement" ]

    1: The final part of a play, film, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.

      * e.g.,  ... ‘the film's denouement was unsatisfying and ambiguous’ 

     [ "Denouement" ]

    1: Like that moment in the movie The Mask when the mask pops up above the water at the very end and you're like "Ohz it's still theeeeere!"

      * e.g.,  ... Denouement 

     [ "Emoticon Denouement" ]

    1: When you're having a conversation with someone online and it starts to get boring so it slowly drifts into replies of emoticons until neither party replies.

      * e.g.,  ... Omar: Steve help! My convo with Sarah is drifting into an emoticon denouement. Steve: Who the hell are you and why are you using my computer? 

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