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  • noun Plural form of paronomasia.

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Examples

  • The peculiarity is also called water and grain, which gives rise to a host of double-entendres, puns, paronomasias and conceits more or less frigid.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The peculiarity is also called water and grain, which gives rise to a host of double-entendres, puns, paronomasias and conceits more or less frigid.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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  • Puns. Yay.

    February 28, 2009