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rebus
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rebus
a puzzle consisting of pictures representing syllables and words; in such a puzzle the word hear might be represented by H followed by a picture of an ear


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Instead, popular publications and prints employed veiling strategies such as allegories (mitate), plays on words, symbols with multiple meanings, and rebuses.
Rather, the transparency of the images and their superimposition would make the canvas into something more like photographic paper--the white of the support seeping into the highlights in the imagery--or, better, something like the two plates of transparent glass between which Duchamp sandwiched his rebuses.
Stephanie Calmenson Kindergarten Kids: Riddles, Rebuses, Wiggles, Giggles, and More
 
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