triple-entendre (pluraltriple-entendres)

1. Alternative form oftriple entendre.
   • 1993, Jeffrey S. Weiss, “Georges Braque”, inGreat 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,page210:

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

   • 1996 April 28, “Movie week with Jonathan Richards: Old gay times”, inWales on Sunday,page22:

     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”, inalt.religion.wicca‎^[1] (Usenet), retrieved5 June 2022:

     Atriple-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”, inGreil Marcus,Werner Sollors, editors,A New Literary History of America, Cambridge, Mass.; London: The Belknap Press ofHarvard University Press,→ISBN,page1034:

     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 thetriple-entendres on music, sex, and clothes maintain.

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