2 uses
(click/touch triangles for details)
Definition
a representative sent on a mission — often representing a government
- BOOK XVIII A Broadway Pageant 1 Over the Western sea hither from Niphon come, Courteous, the swart-cheek'd two-sworded envoys, Leaning back in their open barouches, bare-headed, impassive, Ride to-day through Manhattan.Book 18 — A Broadway Pageant (2% in)
- For not the envoys nor the tann'd Japanee from his island only, Lithe and silent the Hindoo appears, the Asiatic continent itself appears, the past, the dead, The murky night-morning of wonder and fable inscrutable, The envelop'd mysteries, the old and unknown hive-bees, The north, the sweltering south, eastern Assyria, the Hebrews, the ancient of ancients, Vast desolated cities, the gliding present, all of these and more are in the pageant-procession.Book 18 — A Broadway Pageant (39% in)
There are no more uses of "envoy" in Leaves of Grass.
Typical Usage
(best examples)