equivoque
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Without an equivoque, I should look with a very ominous dissatisfaction on the "Elysian fields" that lie beyond.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis
Contrast their blameless wit and humor with the equivoque and foul double entendre of French drawings, and think of the difference involuntarily suggested between the social atmospheres of Paris and London.
From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by James Parton
The equivoque is in the use of the word 'dollar.'
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
It almost always turns upon false relations and equivoque, whence jokers by profession usually possess minds as incorrect as they are superficial.
From A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" by Fran?ois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
Over this equivoque Dobbin shook a baffled head; and Lucinda laughed, glanced carelessly toward the stage to make sure that the act still was young, and offered to rise.
From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Louis Joseph Vance
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