envoi
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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
But a ballade without an envoi lacks that section whose function is to tie together the rest, and complete the whole as a work of art.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
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 Chaytor, H.J.
