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Date: 1500-1600
Language: Modern Latin
Origin: postscriptum, from Latin postscribere 'to write after'

postscript

 noun
     
Related topics: Mail
post‧script [countable] PS
1TCM a message written at the end of a letter after you have signed your name
2 extra details or information that you add after a story or account
postscript to
There's an interesting postscript to this tale.
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