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Double entendre   /dˈəbəl ɑntˈɑndrə/   Listen
Double entendre

noun
1.
An ambiguity with one interpretation that is indelicate.





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"Double entendre" Quotes from Famous Books



... would not fail to weep," says Cicero![168] After this he seems to have recovered from his sorrow. We have a correspondence with Poetus which always typifies hilarity of spirits. There is a discussion, of which we have but the one side, on "double entendre" and plain speaking. Poetus had advocated the propriety of calling a spade a spade, and Cicero shows him the inexpediency. Then we come suddenly upon his letter to Atticus, written on the 7th of April, three weeks ...
— The Life of Cicero - Volume II. • Anthony Trollope
... going to make love to her? She was not an inexperienced girl, and knew that there was nothing impossible or even improbable in the thought. She wondered what Karl Steinmetz must have been like when he was a young man. He had a deft way even now of planting a double entendre when he took the trouble. How could she know that his manner was always easiest, his attitude always politest, toward the women whom he despised. In his way this man was a philosopher. He had a theory that an exaggerated politeness is an ...
— The Sowers • Henry Seton Merriman


Words linked to "Double entendre" :   ambiguity


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