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
An environmental envoi, perhaps, with Buzz washed up on a beach alongside other jetsam, or clogging the gullet of a whale?
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 21, 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
And the sad envoi returns and will not be shaken off.
From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Philip H. Goepp
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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