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See also: representation of some See also: sentence or thing by means of pictures or words, or a combination of both
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Rebuses first became popular in See also: France, where they were at first called See also: rebus de Picardie, that province, according to G
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See also: Menage (1613-1692), having been the scene of their origin, which he found in the satires written by the students and See also: young clerks on the foibles of the See also: day under the title " De rebus quae geruntur." See also: Camden mentions an instance of this kind of wit in a gallant who ex-pressed his love to a woman named See also: Rose See also: Hill by
See also: painting in the border of his See also: gown a rose, a hill, an See also: eye, a See also: loaf and a well; this, in the See also: style of the rebus, reads " Rose Hill I love well." This kind of wit was happily ridiculed by See also: Ben See also: Jonson in the humorous description of See also: Abel Drugger's See also: device in the Alchemivt and by
the Spectator in the device of See also: Jack of See also: Newberry
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The name is also applied to arrangements of words in which the position of the several vocables is to be taken into account in See also: divining the meaning
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Thus " I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking " makes the rebus
stand take to taking
I you throw my; or in French
pir vent vemr
un vient d'un
may be read " un soupir vient souvent d'un souvenir." A still simpler French rebus is expressed by the two letters G a, which may be read, J'ai See also: grand See also: appeal (G grand, a See also: petit)
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" Rebus " (or " allusive arms "), in See also: heraldry, is a coat of arms which bears an allusion to the name of the See also: person,—as three castles for See also: Castleton, three cups for See also: Butler, three conies for Coningsby
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