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‖ calembour|kalɑ̃bur, ˈkæləmbʊər, -æ-|
Also calembourg.
[Fr. (According to Chasles, quoted by Littré, from the name of ‘the Abbé de Calemberg, a witty personage in German tales’, i.e. Pfarrer Wigand von Theben, known as the ‘Pfaff von Kahlenberg’ or Priest of Kahlenberg in Lower Austria.)]
A pun.
1830Fraser's Mag. II. 237 All British-born..people..father their calembourgs on Rogers. 1876A. S. Palmer Word-hunter's Note-bk. 167 A mere calembour on the resemblance between the word ebrius and Ebraeus. |