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triple-entendre en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of triple entendre.
   alt of triple entendre
   • At the same time Komunyakaa keeps the poem together, as bebop players keep their ensembles together, through momentum, through shared-yet-violated expectation (melodic shapes in bebop, line shapes here), and through the emotional unity the triple-entendres on music, sex, and clothes maintain. 2009, Stephen Burt, “2001: Twenty-first-century free verse”, in Greil Marcus, Werner Sollors, editors, A New Literary History of America, Cambridge, Mass.; London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 1034:
   • The melon slice, cup, and handle of the pitcher comprise a triple-entendre on the pictorial resemblance between three very different kinds of volume. 1993, Jeffrey S. Weiss, “Georges Braque”, in Great French Paintings from the Barnes Foundation: Impressionist, Post-impressionist, and Early Modern, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf in association with Lincoln University Press, →ISBN, page 210:
   • A triple-entendre, if you will; 'purloined', as in out in the open and a way to change the subject title without losing the thread. The third part of the entendre was that anything is new if perspective can be shifted. 2004 July 28, naismith, “An Open Letter To Leesa”, in alt.religion.wicca (Usenet), retrieved 05 Jun 2022:
   • Cue handbagsful of oh-so-unfunny cross dressing jokes, triple-entendres and more screeching at Windsor Safari Park. 1996 April 28, “Movie week with Jonathan Richards: Old gay times”, in Wales on Sunday, page 22:

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