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- noun Plural form of
calembour .
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Examples
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While we were at the desert, he amused us with some of his compositions in prison, such as an epigram on the Guillotine, half a dozen calembours on the bad fare at the _Gamelle, _
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While we were at the desert, he amused us with some of his compositions in prison, such as an epigram on the Guillotine, half a dozen calembours on the bad fare at the _Gamelle, _
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The epigraph to Walter Redfern's Puns comes from Raymond Queneau: "Tant d'histoire, pour quelques calembours."
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En attendant, le punch circulait, les verres vides s’emplissaient, les verres remplis se vidaient; c’était des toasts, des oh! oh! des ah! ah! des queues de billard en l’air, des bousculades, de gros rires, des calembours, des confidences.
Le Petit Chose (part 1) Histoire d'un Enfant Alphonse Daudet 1868
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