triple-entendre

English

Noun

triple-entendre (plural triple-entendres)

1. Alternative form of triple entendre.
   • 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:

     The melon slice, cup, and handle of the pitcher comprise a triple-entendre on the pictorial resemblance between three very different kinds of volume.

   • 1996 April 28, “Movie week with Jonathan Richards: Old gay times”, in Wales on Sunday, page 22:

     Cue handbagsful of oh-so-unfunny cross dressing jokes, triple-entendres and more screeching at Windsor Safari Park.

   • 2004 July 28, naismith, “An Open Letter To Leesa”, in alt.religion.wicca‎ (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-05:

     A triple-entendre, if you will; 'purloined', as in out in the open and a way to change the subject title without losing the thread. The third part of the entendre was that anything is new if perspective can be shifted.

   • 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:

     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.