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Definition of the day : « double-entendre »

  • As in double entendre : noun play on words
  • As in ambiguity : noun uncertainty of meaning
Example sentences :
  • It was not a double-entendre, but a mot of triple ambiguity.
  • Extract from : « The Scalp Hunters » by Mayne Reid
  • A double-entendre is designed here, and the same is often to be found in old plays.
  • Extract from : « A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 10 (of 15) » by Various
  • This double-entendre was originally published in a Philadelphia newspaper a hundred years ago.
  • Extract from : « The Queer, the Quaint and the Quizzical » by Frank H. Stauffer
  • The double-entendre of Telo with Mentula is evident, and makes clear the apology to Venus.
  • Extract from : « The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus » by Caius Valerius Catullus
  • Then there is double-entendre, implying a secondary meaning of doubtful delicacy.
  • Extract from : « Society for Pure English, Tract 5 » by Society for Pure English
  • Though a good fellow and a wisely humorous one, he seldom said any thing whose cleverness lay in a double-entendre.
  • Extract from : « The Knickerbocker, Vol. 57, No. 1, January 1861 » by Various
  • No double-entendre was intended, but Ruth's thoughts gave one miserable bound to Arnold.
  • Extract from : « Other Things Being Equal » by Emma Wolf
  • It is not its political significance that makes it diverting, but the double-entendre therein.
  • Extract from : « Paris under the Commune » by John Leighton
  • It dealt in private scandal and ribaldry, only the more piquant for its pretty flimsy veil of double-entendre.
  • Extract from : « The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh » by William Makepeace Thackeray