Look up: envoy

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   envoy
   the final section of a troubadour poem which sends the song out into the world. Poetically it often involves a shift of character; it may address the messanger or the audience instead of the loved one of previous sections, for instance. The envoy is a partial stanza and is sung to the last line(s) of the musical setting; therefore it ends with a clos cadence and forms a musical rhyme to the final stanza.
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   Envoy
   An envoy is a diplomatic agent ranking next after an ambassador. The term is also applied to a person sent on a mission.
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   envoy
   [n] - a diplomat having less authority than an ambassador 2. [n] - a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry
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   Envoy
   (programming, operating system) A variable that is bound in the current environment. When evaluating an expression in some environment, the evaluation of a variable consists of looking up its name in the environment and substituting its value. Most programming languages have some concept of an environment but in Unix shell scripts it has a specifi...
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   Envoy
   En'voy noun [ French envoyé envoy, from envoyer to send; prefix en- (L. in ) + voie way, Latin via : confer French envoi an envoy (in sense 2). See Voyage , and confer Invoice .] 1. One dispatched upon an errand or mission; a messenger; esp., a person deputed by a sovereign or a government to negotiate a treaty, or transact o ...
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   envoy
   envoi noun a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry
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   envoy
   envoy extraordinary noun a diplomat having less authority than an ambassador
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   Envoy
   `Envoy` may refer to: *a diplomat *Envoy (WordPerfect), a document reader and document file format *GMC Envoy, a make of automobile *`The Envoy`, a 1982 album by Warren Zevon *Envoy, the call sign for United Kingdom airline Flyjet *Airspeed Envoy, a 1930s British light transport aircraft *Envoy 100, an electronic messaging service *`Envoy` (magazine), a Roman Catholic apologetic magazine
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   Envoy
   • (n.) An explanatory or commendatory postscript to a poem, essay, or book; -- also in the French from, l`envoi. • (n.) One dispatched upon an errand or mission; a messenger; esp., a person deputed by a sovereign or a government to negotiate a treaty, or transact other business, with a foreign sovereign or government; a minister accredite...
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    envoy
    (from the article `diplomacy`) ...(i.e., backed by the threat to apply punitive measures or to use force) but is overtly nonviolent. Its primary tools are international dialogue ... Because heralds were inviolable, they were the favoured channels of contact in wartime. They preceded envoys to arrange for safe passage. Whereas ... The...
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    envoy
    the brief stanza that ends a poem such as the ballade or the sestina. See also tornada.
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    envoy
    
    1. a diplomat having less authority than an ambassador
    2. someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else
    3. a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry
    
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    envoy
    envoy: see diplomatic service.
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