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Les Misérables vocabulary
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rebus
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Definition:words represented with pictures; a hieroglyphbasically like a texting emoji
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There was a rebus of [Bee's] name on her sweatshirt.
Kurt Vonnegut. The Sirens of Titan (1959)
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CRABTREE. Nay egad it's true—I back him at a Rebus or a Charade against the best Rhymer in the Kingdom—has your Ladyship heard the Epigram he wrote last week on Lady Frizzle's Feather catching Fire—Do Benjamin repeat it—or the Charade you made last Night extempore at Mrs. Drowzie's conversazione—Come now your first is the Name of a Fish, your second a great naval commander—and
SIR BENJAMIN. Dear Uncle—now—prithee——
R.B. Sheridan. The School for Scandal
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I have in my hand is an ingenious contrivance — a sort of practical rebus, I may call it: here, you see, it looks like an elegant heart-shaped box, portable —
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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I'd become a master at puzzles, rebuses, sudoku. Before, I'd always thought that these kinds of games were just for old ladies.
Melania G. Mazzucco. Limbo (Virginia Jewiss translation), p.340 (2014)
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