Talk:double entente

RFV discussion: July 2019–February 2020
An anon created this page. I only find this as (cf. Triple Alliance) or to be a misspelling of  Leasnam (talk) 12:58, 25 July 2019 (UTC)


 * It is not English. It may be part of a French phrase. Wikipedia (the English one) that the phrase double entendre is “a corruption of the authentic French expression à double entente ("double meaning")”. That three-word expression is proper French, and means “with a double meaning”; it is listed as an adverbial phrase in this online dictionary and also has an entry in the French Wikipedia, where it is classified as an adjectival phrase.  --Lambiam 19:22, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

I could find no evidence for the supplied defintion, but there is evidence for a synonym or near-synonym of. I added a number of cites to the citations page that use the phrase without italics or scare quotes, which could be taken as evidence that the author considered it English. Particularly convincing, perhaps, are the quotes which use the plural ("double ententes") which would not be correct french. Kiwima (talk) 13:15, 26 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Citations have now been added. But none of them relate to the definition given, rather to "double entendre". SemperBlotto (talk) 13:13, 26 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Two that relate to the first sense: (tongue-in-cheek); .  --Lambiam 19:23, 26 July 2019 (UTC)

RFV-failed. Thanks to for the two citations, but we never found a third, and those two look like nonces. Kiwima (talk) 20:21, 13 February 2020 (UTC)