Possibly Dumb RestructuredText Question

I've been using RST for some years with great success but I have a sort
of dumb question.  In the old nroff/troff and even LaTeX days, there
were ways to define text aliases and reference them later in the
document.   I want to be able to do something like this:

    SHORTSTRING = ``my really``  **looooong**  string

And then make reference to it later as in:


    So, as you can see, SHORTSTRING is at least 20 chars long.

Even more, I'd like to be able to nest such definitions:

    LONGERSTRING = I've described SHORTSTRING to demonstrate the principle.


Is any/all of this directly supported via RST/Docutils (I realize this can
be achieved with an m4 pass first but I'd rather avoid this if at all possible ...


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