calembour

Example Sentences

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Our English "pun" is a clumsy thing compared to the finesse of a neatly-turned French calembour.

From The Days Before Yesterday by Hamilton, Frederick Spencer, Lord

He was most capital company, rolling out perpetual jokes and calembour, and bubbling over with exuberant joie de vivre.

From Here, There and Everywhere by Hamilton, Frederick Spencer, Lord