jeu de mots

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Whence the following jeu de mots: "Le mur, murant Paris, rend Paris murmurout."

From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Blagdon, Francis W.

The audience thereupon exclaimed, "Languille crie avant qu'on l'�corche;" and hence the "jeu de mots," and the proverb.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 89, July 12, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various

It is simply a jeu de mots, and no more, though funny enough as it stands.

From By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects by Adams, William Davenport

"Come, come, you little humbug, take off that gigantic sacque, and sit down here; upun my word I won't make any more of those nasty jeu de mots."

From Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense by Vera, [pseud.]

My first impression, on ascertaining this result, was one of horror at the treasonable "jeu de mots" I had so unwittingly perpetrated.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 100, September 27, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various