: the usually explanatory or commendatory concluding remarks to a poem, essay, or book
especially: a short final stanza of a ballad serving as a summary or dedication
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebAn environmental envoi, perhaps, with Buzz washed up on a beach alongside other jetsam, or clogging the gullet of a whale? Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 21 June 2019
Word History
Etymology
Middle English envoye, from Middle French envoi, literally, message, from Old French envei, from enveier to send on one's way, from Vulgar Latin *inviare, from Latin in- + via way — more at way