equivoque

adj

1. (obsolete)Equivocal.

noun

1. (obsolete)A homonym.
2. A play on words, a pun.

   “[H]e sported in many other æquivoques of the same nature; and at dinner told the physician, that he was like the root of the tongue, as being cursedly down in the mouth.”

3. Ambiguity or double meaning.

   “[T]he black wisps of women bargaining behind those veils might turn out to be the ballet and coalesce in some dance gaily admitting their equivoque of concealing and proclaiming their sex.”