All 3 Uses
allude
in
The Three Musketeers
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- They looked hesitatingly around them, and appeared to doubt the thickness of the partition between them and the office of M. de Treville; but a fresh allusion soon brought back the conversation to his Eminence, and then the laughter recovered its loudness and the light was not withheld from any of his actions.†
Chpt 2. *allusion = an indirect reference
- This is the reason why Monsieur the Principal has proposed to me the following subject, which has not yet been treated upon, and in which I perceive there is matter for magnificent elaboration—'UTRAQUE MANUS IN BENEDICENDO CLERICIS INFERIORIBUS NECESSARIA EST.'" D'Artagnan, whose erudition we are well acquainted with, evinced no more interest on hearing this quotation than he had at that of M. de Treville in allusion to the gifts he pretended that d'Artagnan had received from the Duke of Buckingham.†
Chpt 26.
- One might believe this is an allusion to the queen-mother!†
Chpt 48.
Definitions:
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(1)
(allude) to make an indirect referenceThe expression, no allusion can mean "not even an indirect reference"; i.e., neither a direct nor an indirect reference to something.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)