All 4 Uses
envoy
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(Edited)
- All eyes turned to the estrade reserved for the Flemish envoys.
Chpt 1.1.1envoys = representatives sent on a mission
- ...the usher announced, in a sonorous voice, "Messieurs the Envoys of Monsieur the Duke of Austria."
Chpt 1.1.3 *
- This hope was speedily dispelled like his other illusions; silence had indeed, been restored in the audience, after a fashion; but Gringoire had not observed that at the moment when the cardinal gave the order to continue, the gallery was far from full, and that after the Flemish envoys there had arrived new personages forming part of the cortege, whose names and ranks, shouted out in the midst of his dialogue by the intermittent cry of the usher, produced considerable ravages in it.
Chpt 1.1.4
- At some distance behind them, two men dressed in garments of Flemish style were conversing, who were not sufficiently lost in the shadow to prevent any one who had been present at the performance of Gringoire's mystery from recognizing in them two of the principal Flemish envoys, Guillaume Rym, the sagacious pensioner of Ghent, and Jacques Coppenole, the popular hosier.
Chpt 2.10.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(envoy) a representative sent on a mission -- often representing a government
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, envoy can reference a specific level of minister in the UK or a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry.