Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of envoy.

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  • noun 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.

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  • noun a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry

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Examples

  • This poem is subtitled "An envoi to 'The Story Of The Gadsbys'" - an "envoi" is effectively a postcript, and "The Pride Of The Gadsbys" was a play (or a series of fragments of plays) written earlier by Kipling.

    The Winners Rudyard Kipling 2003

  • This poem is subtitled "An envoi to 'The Story Of The Gadsbys'" - an "envoi" is effectively a postcript, and "The Pride Of The Gadsbys" was a play (or a series of fragments of plays) written earlier by Kipling.

    The Winners Rudyard Kipling 2003

  • And this must bring us to the writing of “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley,” which was his farewell to England and his envoi, also, to both “democracy” and “civilization.”

    A Revolutionary Simpleton 2008

  • And this must bring us to the writing of “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley,” which was his farewell to England and his envoi, also, to both “democracy” and “civilization.”

    A Revolutionary Simpleton 2008

  • Is this Knight-Jadczyk, if a real person, altogether sure she is not the consequence of a secret cloning of Stanslaw Lem and Kurt Vonnegut, to be unleashed on the 21st Century as posthumous envoi?

    Not only are they better capitalists, but better peacemakers too? « Antiwar.com Blog 2008

  • Nevertheless, he decided to append a little envoi to make the thing land more easily.

    A Complaint to His Purse 2010

  • Algernon Charles Swinburne particularly favoured, the Ballade, is the Ballade Supreme, with its 10-lined stanzas and five-line envoi.

    Great Regulars: Its form, a variant of the French form Rus Bowden 2009

  • In the early years of the last century socialists in England used to sing a hymn about their liberation from exploitation and under-representation: its title and opening line serves as the perfect envoi today.

    [england] this day is for you 2009

  • A sestina is a fixed verse form in which six end-words recur in a set order in six stanzas and a three-line envoi (a coda or postscript).

    2007 March 12 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2007

  • Food, envoi mental and safety standards set by our democratic institutions are subject to challenge if they conflict with those approved by unelected international trade bureaucracies.

    A True Maverick 2009

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