Meaning of rebusses | Babel Free

Definitions

Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait du subjonctif de reboire.

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Examples

“For the Sake of Variety I have, in the following Rebuſſes, differed in the Manner of Compoſition from the preceding Part of this Collection: As, /[…] / Theſe two Examples, with the Knowledge you muſt have acquired in this Kind of Gueſs-work, after having conſidered the ſeventy-ſix Rebuſſes already paſſed over, I think is a ſufficient Guide through the Labyrinth, but if ever you are at a Stand, catch bold directly of the Clew, which take my Word for it, will conduct you to the End without ſtumbling.”

“Answers to the Rebusses in laſt Year’s Palladium.”

“There is a profusion of rebusses on the groining of the ceiling, in conformity with the taste of the age.[…]For, looking up to the groining round the centre orbs, one representing the Almighty, the other the Blessed Virgin, we find the following characters and rebusses: the letter T, the syllable Hun, the figure of a ton, for Thomas Hunton, and the figure[…] for prior.”

“resolution / rebusses / communism”

“Letters and script form rebusses or collages of images that convey a manifest content of an order both identical and contrary to that of the narrative.”

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