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 Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton
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 Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton
