envoi

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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

But as a writer reviews his own words, it is inevitable that some sort of envoi should present itself to his mind.

From To My Younger Brethren Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work by Moule, H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn)