Crossword clues for rebuses
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rebus \Re"bus\ (r[=e]"b[u^]s), n.; pl. Rebuses (r[=e]"b[u^]s*[e^]z). [L. rebus by things, abl. pl. of res a thing: cf. F. r['e]bus. Cf. 3d Real.]
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A mode of expressing words and phrases by pictures of objects whose names resemble those words, or the syllables of which they are composed; enigmatical representation of words by figures; hence, a peculiar form of riddle made up of such representations.
Note: A gallant, in love with a woman named Rose Hill, had, embroidered on his gown, a rose, a hill, an eye, a loaf, and a well, signifying, Rose Hill I love well.
(Her.) A pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the person to whom it belongs. See Canting arms, under Canting.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of rebus English)
Usage examples of "rebuses".
Then the blue world suddenly blossomed and filled the screens entirely, its curved limb a white line, the blue water all patterned by white cloud swirls, the continents peaking out from cloud patterns like little rebuses of half-remembered myth: Asia.
In the days to come the frail black rebuses of blood in those sands would crack and break and drift away so that in the circuit of few suns all trace of the destruction of these people would be erased.