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Grammar : Noun
Spell : duhb-uh l ahn-tahn-druh, -tahnd; French doo-blahn-tahn-druh
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʌb əl ɑnˈtɑn drə, -ˈtɑnd; French du blɑ̃ˈtɑ̃ drə



Définition of double entendre

Origin :
  • also double-entendre, 1670s, from French (where it was rare and is now obsolete), literally "a twofold meaning," from entendre (now entente) "to hear, to understand, to mean." The proper Modern French phrase would be double entente, but the phrase has become established in English in its old form.
  • noun play on words
Example sentences :
  • This was no conventional—if the double entendre may be permitted—demonstration.
  • Extract from : « Theodore Roosevelt and His Times » by Harold Howland
  • And so it was, though I had not been intending what the French call a double entendre at the time.
  • Extract from : « Eliza » by Barry Pain
  • Here, however, it is probable that a double entendre was meant.
  • Extract from : « George Cruikshank's Omnibus » by George Cruikshank
  • But, no indeed, I was quite innocent of any double entendre.
  • Extract from : « Lord Loveland Discovers America » by C. N. Williamson
  • If it had double entendre, its existence had a double meaning.
  • Extract from : « Kentucky in American Letters, v. 1 of 2 » by John Wilson Townsend
  • And wasn't what he had just said very like what the French call a double entendre?
  • Extract from : « Christopher and Columbus » by Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim
  • The Normans failed to see the "double entendre" of this reply.
  • Extract from : « The Rival Heirs being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune » by A. D. Crake
  • He divined an innuendo, a double entendre in the speech that he did not comprehend, yet which enraged him.
  • Extract from : « A Man's Hearth » by Eleanor M. Ingram
  • Now large teeth do not lend themselves to well-spoken comedy scenes, to smiles, or to double entendre.
  • Extract from : « The Elusive Pimpernel » by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
  • Simplicissimus, Harden's Zukunft, all the double entendre weeklies and monthlies of Paris.
  • Extract from : « Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess » by Henry W. Fischer

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