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Noun: peroration  `pe-ru'rey-shun
  1. A flowery and highly rhetorical oration
     
  2. (rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration
    "he summarized his main points in his peroration"

Derived forms: perorations

See also: perorate

Type of: close, closing, conclusion, end, ending, oration

Part of: oration

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