\L'en`voi"\, or L'envoy \L'en`voy"\ (l[aum]n`vw[aum]"),
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.