- a variation of envoy.
envoi
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envois
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a final, summative message, such as the closing scene of a movie or a concluding passage or reflection in a book.
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a final act of farewell at the end of a career, such as a performer's last appearance or recording, an athlete's last competition, an author's last book, etc.; swan song.
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Prosody. in a ballad or sestina, a final stanza, containing a dedication or summative reflection.
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There’s a quote I love, a kind of mantra I repeat to myself in the face of great loss, that I’ll leave with you as an envoi to this exchange.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2021
An environmental envoi, perhaps, with Buzz washed up on a beach alongside other jetsam, or clogging the gullet of a whale?
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 21, 2019
Shakespeare is even braver than Chaucer in invoking this paradox, for he sometimes has his characters themselves deliver the envoi.
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2014
After God intervenes, the piece concludes with an envoi, like an undulant benediction, beautifully sung in duo by these impressive artists.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2013
Invoice is the plural of the obsolete invoy, from Fr. envoi, sending.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
Amid the ordinary gains and losses of the calendar year arrive the vivid envois of the past: a country drugstore, the “kamikaze Fiats” of Rome, a statue of Dante under alpine snow.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 4, 2019
Misinterpretation of the language of these envois gave rise to the legend concerning the "courts of love," as we have stated in a previous chapter.
From The Troubadours by H.J. Chaytor
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