- a variation of envoy.
envoi
Americannoun
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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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If I was stopped now and then by Crimp’s more mystifying conceits — a Borscht Belt envoi?
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2022
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
When she signs off as “Your loving wife,” the envoi is simultaneously sarcastic and true.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 9, 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
The absence of an envoi will be noticed in Chaucer's, as in most of the medieval English ballades.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
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 Chaytor, H.J.
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