"entendre" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1970, Eugene Wildman, Montezuma’s Ball, Chicago, Ill.: The Swallow Press Inc., →LCCN, page 82:",
          "text": "Like Lon Chaney, this mind’s mummy lives—but beneath how many wrappings of multiple entendres?",
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          "ref": "1986, San Francisco Focus, volume 33, page 105, column 2:",
          "text": "“Come on baby let’s ride / slide on into your four-wheel-drive and ride,” the singer urges, conveying more entendres than two.",
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          "ref": "1992, Julie Burchill, Sex & Sensibility, London: Grafton, →ISBN, page 38:",
          "text": "Still, in pursuit of said Phantom Nympho, much fun had been had – and more entendres doubled than you could shake a stick at.",
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          "ref": "1999 November–December, Joel Drucker, “King of the Ring: Let the Critics Snipe; Pro Wrestling Honcho Vince McMahon Will Tell You, ‘We’re About What People Want’”, in Cigar Aficionado, volume 7, number 6, archived from the original on 2020-04-29, page 135, column 2:",
          "text": "Though he decries “egghead philosophers who try to tell us what we are,” even [Vince] McMahon notes a historical connection surrounding the evolution of WWF plot lines. In the 1980s, echoing the Cold War, it was mostly a matter of good guys versus bad guys. “Black and white, pretty simple,” he says. “But now we’re into more entendres, different shadings.”",
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          "ref": "2009, Steven Helmling, Adorno’s Poetics of Critique (Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy), Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN:",
          "text": "[…] and double-, triple-, multiple-entendres of its very title already begin to dramatize, and with the effect of seeming to replicate the very miscarriage of ‘dialectic’ itself that is the crux of the book’s indictment of ‘enlightenment’.",
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          "ref": "2010, The British Tradition (Prentice Hall Literature), Michigan teacher’s edition, volume 2, Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 804:",
          "text": "Ono Komachi was a prominent and gifted poet in her day. She was able to weave emotional intensity, multiple entendres, and metaphors together to form elegant poetry.",
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          "ref": "2019, Allen Salkin, Aaron Short, quoting Conrad Riggs, The Method to the Madness: Donald Trump’s Ascent as Told by Those Who Were Hired, Fired, Inspired—and Inaugurated, New York, N.Y.: All Points Books, St. Martin’s Publishing Group, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Survivor had been developed as Survive by Charlie Parsons. When I’d talk to people about it, they thought it sounded like a military thing or an athletic test of skill and strength. But it’s really a psychological and social experiment. “Survivor” had more entendres.",
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