| Among the myriad rebuses on the aforementioned double-sided sheet at Windsor, there is an elaborate one on the verso that includes an image of a black yarnwinder. |
| Visual puns and rebuses had been popular features in the heraldic imprese or devises of France for centuries. |
| Designs often took the form of pictorial puns and rebuses, or word puzzles. |
| Recognising the fluidity and occasional capriciousness of perception, Leonardo delighted in it, contriving not only rebuses or visual puns, but also optical illusions. |
| Margaret's shrinelike tomb canopy is almost hidden under carved foliage and tracery, with openwork rebuses, initials and ropework. |
| There seem to be puzzles, maybe even a few rebuses or word-games hidden in it too. |
