Dictionary entry

L'envoi

Webster's Dictionary 1913

‖L'en′voi″, orL'en′voy″ (län′vwä″), 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.

2. A conclusion; a result. Massinger.