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Definition of Equivoques
1. equivoque [n] - See also: equivoque
Lexicographical Neighbors of Equivoques
Literary usage of Equivoques
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of John Bannister, Comedian by John Adolphus (1839)
"... ,—equivoques on his name.—The Egyptian Festival. —Madame Mara.—Bannister in
Longbow.—Children, a farce.— Indiscretion, by Prince Hoare,—dedicated to Sir ..."
2. Curiosities of Literature: And The Literary Character Illustrated by Isaac Disraeli, Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1851)
"... opened a vein of invention in the new characters, and allusions, the humorous
equivoques, and sometimes with the licentiousness of the popular fancy. ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1875)
"C'est a quoi sert admirablement notre doctrine des equivoques. Mais savez-vous
bien comment il faut faire quand on ne trouve point de mots equivoques ? ..."
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