"envoy" in the noun sense
1. envoy, envoy extraordinary, minister plenipotentiary
a diplomat having less authority than an ambassador
2. emissary, envoy
someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else
3. envoy, envoi
a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry
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