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| apologue |
a short allegorical story usu. containing a moral; fable. |
| morality play |
an allegorical drama with characters that personify certain vices and virtues, intended for the moral and theological instruction of the audience. |
| Song of Solomon |
a book of the Old Testament, once attributed to King Solomon, that contains a collection of dramatic and lyrical love poems and has been the subject of many allegorical interpretations; Song of Songs; Canticle of Canticles. |
| tarot |
(sometimes cap.) any of a set of twenty-two playing cards that bear allegorical pictures, used in fortunetelling and as the trump cards in a game played with seventy-eight cards. |
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