rebusses

noun

1. (form-of, plural, rare)plural of rebus

   “Answers to the Rebusses in laſt Year’s Palladium.”

   “There is a profusion of rebusses on the groining of the ceiling, in conformity with the taste of the age.[…]For, looking up to the groining round the centre orbs, one representing the Almighty, the other the Blessed Virgin, we find the following characters and rebusses: the letter T, the syllable Hun, the figure of a ton, for Thomas Hunton, and the figure[…] for prior.”

   “resolution / rebusses / communism”

   “Letters and script form rebusses or collages of images that convey a manifest content of an order both identical and contrary to that of the narrative.”