envoi
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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
Followed the beat of lessening footsteps, while the nightingale improvised his envoi.
From Chivalry by Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott
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 H.J. Chaytor
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