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invoice
invoice:
see
envoy
invoice (n.)
1550s, apparently from Middle French
envois
, plural of
envoi
"dispatch (of goods)," literally "a sending," from
envoyer
"to send" (see
envoy
). As a verb, 1690s, from the noun.