The arms of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon feature bows and lions. Ignatius Loyola contains wolves (in Spanish, lobo) and a kettle ( olla), said by some (probably incorrectly) to be a rebus for "Loyola". This word sequence "conger-leo-tun" enunciates the town's name.
1541) bore as arms: Ermine, on a chief azure five bezants, whilst his rebus, displayed many times in terracotta plaques on the walls of his mansion Sutton Place, Surrey, was a "tun" or barrel, used to designate the last syllable of his surname.Īn example of canting arms proper are those of the Borough of Congleton in Cheshire consisting of a conger eel, a lion (in Latin, leo) and a tun (barrel). A man might have a rebus as a personal identification device entirely separate from his armorials, canting or otherwise. Rebuses are used extensively as a form of heraldic expression as a hint to the name of the bearer they are not synonymous with canting arms. 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" ( res, rei (f), a thing, object, matter rebus being ablative plural). 1472) of Norwich, consisting of a stag (or hart) lying down in a conventional representation of water. A more sophisticated example was the rebus of Bishop Walter Lyhart (d. It was a favourite form of heraldic expression used in the Middle Ages to denote surnames.įor example, in its basic form, three salmon (fish) are used to denote the surname " Salmon". For example: the word "been" might be depicted by a rebus showing an illustrated bumblebee next to a plus sign (+) and the letter "n". JSTOR ( August 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ī rebus-style "escort card" from around 1865, to be read as "May I see you home my dear?" A German rebus, circa 1620Ī rebus ( / ˈ r iː b ə s/) is a puzzle device that combines the use of illustrated pictures with individual letters to depict words or phrases.Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
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