double entente

[ doo-blahn tahnt ]

noun

, French.

, plural dou·bles en·tentes [doo-bl, uh, zah, n, -, tahnt].

1. a double meaning; ambiguity.

Example Sentences

When that fail he make straight for his last resource—his last earth-work I might say did I wish double entente.

From Literature

The ancients had as many pictorial euphemisms as ourselves, and when these are understood they enable us to comprehend many a legend otherwise dim; e. g., when Fortuna, or luck, always depicted as a woman, has for her characteristic le timon, and for her motto the proverb, "Fortune favours the bold." we readily understand the double entente.

From Project Gutenberg

Still further, I have been informed by another friend that in Yorkshire, and I understand in other counties of England, the double entente connected with the fish is so marked that it is somewhat difficult to render it into decent phraseology.

From Project Gutenberg

She was also expert in innuendo and double entente.

From Project Gutenberg

A play with a passage of sex double entente that made Jurgen seem stuff for babes.

From Time Magazine Archive