Sekirov Dictionary

equivoque

/ˈɛkwɪvəʊk/

noun 3
adjective 1
forms 3

noun3

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A play on words, a pun.
- [H]e sported in many other aequivoques of the same nature; and at dinner told the physician, that he was like the root of the tongue, as being cursedly down in the mouth. — 1751
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Ambiguity or double meaning.
- [T]he black wisps of women bargaining behind those veils might turn out to be the ballet and coalesce in some dance gaily admitting their equivoque of concealing and proclaiming their sex. — 1942
(no longer used) A homonym.

adjective1

(no longer used) Equivocal.

forms

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