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El retruécano
A Golden Age device that Quevedo made famous. Much more learned than juego de palabras, so it belongs to essays and speeches rather than to a bar.
Examples in context
Quevedo dominaba el retruécano como nadie.
Quevedo mastered the pun like nobody else.
Cerró el discurso con un retruécano elegante.
He closed the speech with an elegant pun.
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