double entente

[ doo-blahn tahnt ]

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noun

, French.

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

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There is an anecdote of the latter which, as an example of thrust and parry in double entente, is hardly to be matched.

It would be remarkable if the French tongue lent itself as easily as ours to the double entente.

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

Repeated ordinances were levelled at the actors, aiming at the purification of the stage and preventing words of double entente.

June, innocently unaware of any double entente in Magda's speech, glanced across at her in astonishment.

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