DOUBLE ENTENDRE • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Double entendre

... an elegant double entendre on Wordsworth's poem and the War Department. Only, if I may correct your addition—ha! ha!—our total, including myself, is eight." And Augustus grew as hilarious as ...

— The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories • Owen Wister

... exclusive and professional': he wears the badge of his trade; he is a regular knight of the game. The difference of the manner in which the subject is treated arises perhaps less from intention, than from the different genius of the two poets. There is no double entendre in the characters of Chaucer: they are either quite serious or quite comic. In Shakespeare the ludicrous and ironical are constantly blended with the stately and the impassioned. We see Chaucer's characters as they saw themselves, not as they appeared to others or might ...

— Characters of Shakespeare's Plays • William Hazlitt