envoi
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envoi (plural envois)
- (poetry) A short stanza at the end of a poem, used either to address a person or to comment on the preceding body of the poem.
- 2009 January 28, Erica Jeal, “LSO/Segerstam”, in The Guardian[1]:
- From the pulsing throb of the very opening, this was a detailed, incisive playing, culminating in an envoi glowing enough to provide the catharsis this programme so uncompromisingly demanded.
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From earlier envei, envoy; from the verb envoyer (“to send”).
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envoi m (plural envois)
- dispatch, sending (act of sending); shipping
- (military) dispatch
- package (something that is sent or dispatches)
- (poetry) envoi
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- “envoi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.