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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
entendre
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
double entendre
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
double
▪ It was funny surely, because it dissolved that secret source of female power into a double entendre.
▪ The intrinsic hilarity of the double entendre?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It was funny surely, because it dissolved that secret source of female power into a double entendre.
▪ The intrinsic hilarity of the double entendre?
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entendre

n. (only used in double entendre English)

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Usage examples of "entendre".

My knees almost melted at the double entendre, but I stiffened them and reminded my libido that he was a thief who had cruelly stolen my aquamanile and left me at the mercy of the gendarmes.

Marck, et une encore plus riche du roi Louis, non-seulement pour porter au duc le message dont vous avez pu entendre parler, mais pour apprendre au roi un secret important.

And he told me the latest septuple entendre that had been making the rounds.

She shoved a menu at him, refusing to be drawn into a game of innuendos and double entendres.

The startling obscenities which occur in Applesauce are only possible because they are expressed in doubles entendres which imply a common background in the audience.

It was Rosetti who suggested they go upstairs, without any awkwardness or connived double entendre, escorting her to her door with the promise to see her for breakfast and moving on to his own room the moment she turned the key in the lock.

His first song ran a gamut of transparent double entendre and monothematic suggestion that would have brought blushes to the cheeks of the blowsiest barmaid, ana was accordingly received with tumultuous applause.

The painting's welldocumented collage of double entendres and playful allusions had been revealed in most art history tomes, and yet, incredibly, the public at large still considered her smile a great mystery.

And you want to tune whatever bit-bucket you've given control of your speech centers to – they're putting out way too much double entendre, somebody might mistake you for a grown-up.

There often lurks behind my words some double entendre which you may not understand, perhaps until much later.

As double entendres go it wasn't awfully subtle, especially when it was accompanied by a languishing look from those thick-lashed dark eyes.

As well, she taught them the Can-Can and vulgar music-hall songs loaded with double entendres which caused Olivia to shake with guilty laughter, although Nancy had always pursed her lips and pretended not to understand.

He was as adept as any mature Quozl at detecting the standard double entendres.

Listening more carefully, he picked up two double entendres and another pun.

After three days of that kind of style, I badly needed to sit in a public bar, drink coarse pints of bitter, swap double entendres with the barmaid.