Allusional device that uses pictures to represent words or parts of words
For other uses, see Rebus (disambiguation).
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A rebus-style "escort card" from around 1865, to be read as "May I see you home my dear?"A German rebus, circa 1620
A rebus (/ˈriːbəs/REE-bəss) is a puzzle device that combines the use of illustrated pictures with individual letters to depict words or phrases. For example: the word "been" might be depicted by a rebus showing an illustrated bumblebee next to a plus sign (+) and the letter "n". It was a favourite form of heraldic expression used in the Middle Ages to denote surnames. It can also include Japanese characters.
For example, in its basic form, three salmon (fish) are used to denote the surname "Salmon". A more sophisticated example was the rebus of Bishop Walter Lyhart (d. 1472) of Norwich, consisting of a stag (or hart) lying down in a conventional representation of water. Another is of Jesus Christ denoted as a fish.
The composition alludes to the name, profession or personal characteristics of the bearer, and speaks to the beholder Non verbis, sed rebus, which Latin expression signifies "not by words but by things"[1] (res, rei (f), a thing, object, matter; rebus being ablative plural).[2]
^Boutell, Charles, Heraldry Historical & Popular, London, 1863, pp. 117–120
^Cassell's Latin Dictionary, ed. Marchant & Charles
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