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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 poetry
Familiarity information: ENVOI used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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