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picture writing

–noun
1. the art of recording events or expressing ideas by pictures, or pictorial symbols, as practiced by preliterate peoples.
2. pictorial symbols forming a record or communication.

Origin:
1735–45
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picture writing

noun
a writing system using pictographs 
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