l'envoy

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l'envoy - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  L'envoi \L'en`voi"\, or L'envoy \L'en`voy"\ (l[aum]n`vw[aum]"),
     n. [F. le the + envoi a sending. See Envoy.]
     1. One or more detached verses at the end of a literary
        composition, serving to convey the moral, or to address
        the poem to a particular person; -- orig. employed in old
        French poetry. --Shak.
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     2. A conclusion; a result. --Massinger.
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