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Synonyms for envoi

Grammar : Noun
Spell : en-voi, ahn-
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɛn vɔɪ, ˈɑn-

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Définition of envoi

Origin :
  • "messenger," 1660s, from French envoyé "messenger," literally "one sent" (12c.), noun use of past participle of envoyer "send," from Vulgar Latin *inviare "send on one's way," from Latin in "on" (see in- (2)) + via "road" (see via (adv.)). The same French word was borrowed in Middle English to mean "a stanza of a poem sending it off to find readers" (late 14c.).
  • As in swan song : noun final performance
Example sentences :
  • The poem might also conclude with a half stanza or tornada, (French envoi).
  • Extract from : « The Troubadours » by H.J. Chaytor
  • But as a writer reviews his own words, it is inevitable that some sort of envoi should present itself to his mind.
  • Extract from : « To My Younger Brethren » by Handley C. G. Moule
  • Even in Modern English poetry the envoi has not quite gone out of use.
  • Extract from : « A History of English Versification » by Jakob Schipper
  • In Middle English poetry the envoi mostly serves the same purposes.
  • Extract from : « A History of English Versification » by Jakob Schipper
  • The scheme is a b a b c c d d e d E in the stanzas and d d e d E in the envoi.
  • Extract from : « A History of English Versification » by Jakob Schipper
  • At the end of nearly every section he adds an envoi of his own to drive home the moral more surely.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 » by Various
  • Guynemer's biography is of such a nature that it must seem like a poem: why not, then, conclude it with an envoi?
  • Extract from : « Georges Guynemer » by Henry Bordeaux
  • It is composed of five strophes, identical in arrangement, of eleven verses each, and of an envoi of five verses.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 » by Various
  • The absence of an envoi will be noticed in Chaucer's, as in most of the medieval English ballades.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 » by Various
  • "I will try to remember the last stanza and the envoi as we go along," added Victor.
  • Extract from : « The Grey Cloak » by Harold MacGrath
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