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allusion
noun as in indirect reference; hint
Example Sentences
The trophy features many nods from the 60-year-old musician, including a hand-drawn “cresting wave” illustration and an arrow and mod symbol — an allusion to Vedder’s tribute to the Who on his personal guitar.
His allusions can be as distracting as they are resonant.
His first book of essays, Musical Thoughts and Afterthoughts, published in 1976, contained allusions to his musical work, but was not limited by it.
That was an obvious allusion to the dropping of DEI initiatives.
It was a Russian nesting doll of menswear, with allusions to every tool in Browne’s prodigious toolbox of suiting.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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