envoi

Example Sentences

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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

The ballade is a highly artificial form of verse, French in origin, consisting, as a rule, of three eight-line stanzas and a four-line envoi, with only three rhymes in all twenty-eight lines.

From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Kilmer, Joyce