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- noun Plural form of
envoy .
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Examples
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The closed door meeting at the US mission to the United Nations in New York included envoys from the five veto-wielding members of the UN Security Council – the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China – plus Germany.
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He successfully battles varied monsters, welds together a tribe, and starts humanity back on the road to civilization (just in time to meet envoys from the society which seeded the planet with life millennia in the past).
MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves 2009
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Rice said Iran had given the run-around to envoys from the U.S. and five other world powers ….
A Kristol-Odierno Meeting at Fort Hood? « Antiwar.com Blog 2008
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He greets us with smiles, deference (for our status as envoys from the outside world) and formality.
A dying breed 2000
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Certain Turkish envoys, when admitted into his presence, refused to remove their turbans, whereupon he had them nailed to their heads.
Roumania Past and Present James Samuelson
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In 1604, he built himself a new capital, Hingking, which he placed not very far east of the modern Mukden, and there he received envoys from the Mongolian chieftains, sent to congratulate him on his triumph.
China and the Manchus Herbert Allen Giles 1890
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Pope's Legate, to their excellencies the envoys from the Greek Emperor, to my Lord Conrad the Elector of Maintz, and many more nobles.
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867
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Pope's Legate, to their excellencies the envoys from the Greek Emperor, to my Lord Conrad the Elector of Maintz, and many more nobles.
Margery — Complete Georg Ebers 1867
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Pope's Legate, to their excellencies the envoys from the Greek Emperor, to my Lord Conrad the Elector of Maintz, and many more nobles.
Margery — Volume 05 Georg Ebers 1867
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In the height of these demonstrations of friendship, two Ottawas entered the council-house, announcing themselves as envoys from the French Governor of Canada to seek a renewal of ancient alliance.
Life of George Washington — Volume 01 Washington Irving 1821
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