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Envoi

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Variant of envoy2.

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n. A short stanza at the end of a poem, used either to address a person or to comment on the preceding body of the poem.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. An obsolete form of envoy.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry

Word Usage

"This poem is subtitled "An envoi to 'The Story Of The Gadsbys'" - an "envoi" is effectively a postcript, and "The Pride Of The Gadsbys" was a play (or a series of fragments of plays) written earlier by Kipling."

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Words that are more generic or abstract

stanza