The Collaborative International Dictionary
Equivoque \Eq"ui*voque\, Equivoke \Eq"ui*voke\, n. [F.
An ambiguous term; a word susceptible of different significations.
--Coleridge.An equivocation; a guibble.
--B. Jonson.
Wiktionary
a. (context obsolete English) equivocal. n. 1 A play on words, a pun. 2 ambiguity or double meaning.
Usage examples of "equivoque".
Certain it was that Knight’s disappointment at finding himself second or third in the field, at Elfride’s momentary equivoque, and at her reluctance to be candid, brought him to the verge of cynicism.
How many times, after an equivoque, after the specious and treacherous reasoning of egotism, had he heard his irritated conscience cry in his ear: "A trip!
He had a blunt and arbitrary manner, and invariably spoke his mind frankly and honestly—a habit which made him strangely popular in a profession where the language of equivoque is cultivated almost as sedulously as in the circles of international diplomacy.