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

And the whole concludes with a very tender "envoi," expressly addressed to Philippa, although the poem was written in honour of his patrons, the Duke and Duchess.

From The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)