"triple-entendre" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: triple-entendres [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} triple-entendre (plural triple-entendres)
  1. Alternative form of triple entendre. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: triple entendre
    Sense id: en-triple-entendre-en-noun-pMDIXxaY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "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:",
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          "ref": "1996 April 28, “Movie week with Jonathan Richards: Old gay times”, in Wales on Sunday, page 22:",
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          "ref": "2004 July 28, naismith, “An Open Letter To Leesa”, in alt.religion.wicca (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-05:",
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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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.",
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