Both Uses of
allude
in
Dune
- " If the people of this decadent garrison city could only see the Emperor's private note to his "Noble Duke"—the disdainful allusions to veiled men and women: " …. but what else is one to expect of barbarians whose dearest dream is to live outside the ordered security of the faufreluches?"†
Book 1 *
- Paul studied the open desert, questing in his prescient memory, probing the mysterious allusions to thumpers and maker hooks in the Fremkit manual that had come with their escape pack.†
Book 2
Definition:
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(allude) to make an indirect referenceeditor's notes: The expression, no allusion can mean "not even an indirect reference"; i.e., neither a direct nor an indirect reference to something.