- 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 accredited to a foreign government. An envoy's rank is below
that of an ambassador. - An explanatory or commendatory postscript to a poem, essay,
or book; -- also in the French from, l'envoi.
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