allusion

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ALLU'SION, noun alluzhun. [Latin See Allude.] A reference to something not explicitly mentioned; a hint; a suggestion, by which something is applied or understood to belong to that which is not mentioned, by means of some similitude which is perceived between them.
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