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ENVOI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does envoi mean? 

ENVOI (noun)
  The noun ENVOI has 1 sense:

1. a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetryplay

  Familiarity information: ENVOI used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ENVOI (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

envoi; envoy

Hypernyms ("envoi" is a kind of...):

stanza (a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem)


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