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l'envoi

l'envoi is the alternative form of envoi.

Meaning of envoi

Noun

envoi (plural envois)

  1. 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.
    • From the pulsing throb of the very opening, this was a detailed, incisive playing, culminating in an envoi glowing enough to provide the catharsis this programme so uncompromisingly demanded.2009 January 28, Erica Jeal, “LSO/Segerstam”, in The Guardian

Forms of l'envoi

plurall'envois

Origin of l'envoi

From Middle French l'envoy.

Questions about l'envoi

What is l'envoi the alternative form of?
L'envoi is the alternative form of envoi.

Words near l'envoi in the dictionary

  1. L'Aquila
  2. l'chaim
  3. l'chayim
  4. l'ee
  5. l'ees
  6. l'envoi
  7. l'esprit d'escalier
  8. l'esprit de l'escalier
  9. L'Estaque
  10. l'havdl
  11. L'Heureux

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Adapted from Wiktionary: l'envoi (page history and authors); envoi (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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