envoyer: meaning and definitions

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What is envoyer?

What is envoyer?

  • A representative of a government who is sent on a special diplomatic mission.
  • A minister plenipotentiary assigned to a foreign embassy, ranking next below the ambassador.
  • A messenger; an agent.
  • A short closing stanza in certain verse forms, such as the ballade or sestina, dedicating the poem to a patron or summarizing its main ideas.
  • The concluding portion of a prose work or a play.

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