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envoi
en·voy 1 E0168700 (ĕn′voi′, ŏn′-)n.1. A representative of a government who is sent on a special diplomatic mission.2. A minister plenipotentiary assigned to a foreign embassy, ranking next below the ambassador.3. A messenger; an agent.
[French envoyé, messenger, from past participle of envoyer, to send, from Old French envoier, from Late Latin inviāre, to be on the way : Latin in-, in, on; see en-1 + Latin via, way; see wegh- in Indo-European roots.]
en·voy 2 also en·voi E0168700 (ĕn′voi′, ŏn′-)n.1. A short closing stanza in certain verse forms, such as the ballade or sestina, dedicating the poem to a patron or summarizing its main ideas.2. The concluding portion of a prose work or a play.
[Middle English envoie, from Old French, a sending away, conclusion, from envoier, to send; see envoy1.]envoiA brief postscript in verse or prose.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | envoi - a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetryenvoystanza - a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem |
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