moorish
see also: Moorish
Pronunciation
Moorish
Pronunciation Adjective
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see also: Moorish
Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈmɔːɹɪʃ/
moorish
- (now rare) Boggy, marshy; like a moor.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗:, I.iii.3:
- glow-worms, fire-drakes, meteors, ignis fatuus […], with many such that appear in moorish grounds, about churchyards, moist valleys, or where battles have been fought […].
- moory, quaggy, swampy; see also Thesaurus:marshy
Moorish
Pronunciation Adjective
moorish
- Of or pertaining to the Moors or their culture.
- 1829, Walter Scott, Anne of Geierstein:
- I joy to see you wear around your neck the holy relic I bestowed on you; — but what Moorish charmlet is that you wear beside it?
- (architecture) Of or pertaining to a style of Spanish architecture from the time of the Moors, characterized by the horseshoe arch and ornate, geometric decoration.
- French: mauresque
- German: maurisch
- Italian: moresco
- Portuguese: mouro, mourisco
- Russian: маврита́нский
- Spanish: morisco
- German: maurisch
- Russian: маврита́нский
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