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Allusion
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Main Entry:
al·lu·sion
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allusion
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Main Entry:
allusion
Part of Speech:
The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Example Sentences
This is an enormous collection of the allusions to Shakespeare from 1591 to 1700.
This was a startling allusion to several bodies of knowledge simultaneously.
Belief is the process where the brain converts illusion to allusion, and allusion into certainty.
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This is an enormous collection of the allusions to Shakespeare from 1591 to 1700.
This was a startling allusion to several bodies of knowledge simultaneously.
Belief is the process where the brain converts illusion to allusion, and allusion into certainty.
The barbershop allusion is funny.
My once-bulging file of poetic allusions is flapping near emptily.
Rather than arguing directly, we're putting forward a review by allusion and inference.
The veiled allusion to Catalan in the last paragraph is totally nonsense.
The allusion to Camelot was unmistakable.
His was a classical allusion meaning to look back to a mythical 'golden age'.
The allusion is to games played with cards, such as whist.
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allusion
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