Noun

(en noun)

*2005 , Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril :

The denouement' is the moment when all of the knots of a story are untied, But the ' denouement should not be confused with the end of a story.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Travels and travails , passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement , the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}