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

In its regular conditions a ballade consists of three stanzas and an envoi; there is a refrain which is repeated at the close of each stanza and of the envoi.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various