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Examples of sexual innuendo and double-entendre occur in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales ( 14th century ), in which the Wife of Bath's Tale is laden with double entendres.

The most famous of these may be her use of the word " queynte " to describe both domestic duties ( from the homonym " quaint ") and genitalia (" queynte " being a root of the modern English word cunt.