Synonyms:
allusion
Meaning: passing reference or indirect mention
Usage examples
Not even the bestiality of the allusion could bring him back to earth.
It is very significant that neither in the Acts nor in the Epistles is there any allusion to these resurrections.
If I am reserved to wear a wig, I am at least prepared, externally,' in allusion to his baldness, 'for that distinction.
Vincent, without the slightest allusion to this treatment, quietly escorted him downstairs and saw him into his carriage.
I heard, with some surprise, his allusion to the Great Being, whom he was not wont to recognise; but I made him no reply.
As she came to the last words, Miss Sharp's "deep-toned voice faltered." Everybody felt the allusion to her departure, and to her hapless orphan state.
Genji well remembered the dream which he had dreamt at Suma, and in which his father, the late ex-Emperor, had made a faint allusion to his fallen state.
But the prospect of an explanation,--or otherwise of a fight,--between two leading politicians will fill the House; and any allusion to our Eastern Empire will certainly empty it.
Notwithstanding his contempt for fast men nowadays, he is rather pleased with any allusion to his own youthful reputation in that line, and not unfrequently tells a good story on himself.
In speaking of his intelligence, my wife, who at heart was not a little tinctured with superstition, made frequent allusion to the ancient popular notion which regarded all black cats as witches in disguise.