Envoy /(?)/

En·voy

Envoy

n.
  1. 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.
  2. An explanatory or commendatory postscript to a poem, essay, or book; -- also in the French from, l'envoi.
    The envoy of a ballad is the “sending” of it forth.