double entente
Americannoun
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doubles ententes
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When that fail he make straight for his last resource—his last earth-work I might say did I wish double entente.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
For the soul of art lies in what art can suggest, and nothing is half so suggestive as the half expressed, not even a double entente.
From The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell
The double entente in his tone did not escape Ronaldson's notice.
From A Lost Leader by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
Our journalists have used more often the incorrect phrase double entendre than the French critics the phrase double entente, which is the term that our writers intend to employ.
From Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" by Edward Fordham Spence
The double entente was unintentional, but the girl winced.
From The Unspeakable Perk by Samuel Hopkins Adams
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