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[ noun ] passing reference or indirect mention

Used in print

(Joyce O. Hertzler, American Social Institutions;...)

This is brought_out in the common religious ethos that prevails even in the denominationally diverse audiences at many secular semi-public and public occasions in the United_States ; and it is evidenced in the prayers offered , in the frequent religious allusions , and in the confirmation of points on religious grounds .

(John Michael Ray, "Rhode Island's Reactions...)

Davis commenced his remarks by an allusion to the general feeling of opposition which the meeting had encountered from many of the citizens and all the newspapers of the city .

(Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)

Only when the collage had been exhaustively translated into oil , and transformed by this translation , did Cubism become an affair of positive color and flat , interlocking silhouettes whose legibility and placement created allusions to , if_not the illusion of , unmistakable three-dimensional identities .

(Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)

He gave Abel a quick glance and moved closer to the wheel , hugging it to him , and Abel caught this briefest of allusions to guilt .

(Evan Esar, Humorous English; a guide to comic ,...)

Indefinite reference also carries double meaning where an allusion to one person or thing seems to refer to another .

Related terms

mention allude

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