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Meanings of rebus in English

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Usage of rebus in English
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Yes, there are very creative rebus-like forms of emoji storytelling out there.
Wired
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After all, it is worth more than a logogryph or a rebus!
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
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Memento-remember; mentem-andmind; servare-tohold up; aequam-your mare; in rebus arduis-going up hill.
Tom and Some Other Girls: A Public School Story
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Historia de rebus in Pontificatu, S. Gregorii M. gestis, in fol.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. J...
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The death of the Catholic king would seem the great opportunity 'miscendis rebus'.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the ...
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The copany's name is displayed on the delivery wagons in a tricky rebus.
The new yorker
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For non-readers the clues can be rebus pictures, digital photos, or magazine cut-outs.
Wired
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There was a rebus of her name on her sweatshirt.
The Sirens of Titan
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They invented the rebus, and they were fired on by the first ca on.
The new yorker
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He made a rebus picture for the children of this incident in a letter home.
Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume II, Part 1: 1886-1900
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Together with verbal humour and many absurd devices connected with it, he especially repudiates the rebus.
History of English Humour, Vol. 2
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Quod vel maxime fit ubi de rebus Ecclesiasticis vel de juris prudentia Romana (tom.
Memoirs of My Life and Writings
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His emblematic name, the Bird-Serpent, and his rebus and cross at Palenque, I have already explained.
The Myths of the New World / A Treatise on the Symbolism and Myt...
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A sort of riddle or rebus, you know.
From Sand Hill to Pine
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Florio's rebus or device, then, was a Flower.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 / A Maga...
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Like wealth, health also lives in rebus.
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
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