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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RAY-RHU |
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REBUS (Lat. rebus, " by things ") , a sort of riddle consisting of the representation of some sentence or thing by means of pictures or words, or a combination of both. Rebuses first became popular in France, where they were at first called rebus de Picardie, that province, according to G. Menage
scene of their origin, which he found in the satires written by the students and young
painting
gown
the Spectator in the device of Jack of Newberry. The name is also applied to arrangements of words in which the position of the several vocables is to be taken into account in divining the meaning. 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 grand appeal
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