envoi

Example Sentences

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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

After God intervenes, the piece concludes with an envoi, like an undulant benediction, beautifully sung in duo by these impressive artists.

From New York Times • May 12, 2013

Followed the beat of lessening footfalls, while the nightingale improvised an envoi.

From Chivalry by Cabell, James Branch