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moorish::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | moresque |
moorish::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | moorish architecture |
| Type of | architectural style, style of architecture, type of architecture |
Examples of moorish
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Obama isn't the first moorish president of the US, let alone the first n. one.
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Moorish-Gothic stenciling, designed by Uhlenkott, embellishes the spaces between beams.
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Moorish-looking lights, colonial tiles and impressionistic landscapes lend an artistic look.
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Moorish-looking lights, colonial tiles and impressionistic landscapes give it an artistic look.
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Moorish city gates with a characteristic horseshoe-arched profile can be found in Faro and Elvas.
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Indeed some use a continuous distillation, some the swan neck stills and some other the moorish shape.
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Pamina is dragged in by Sarastro's moorish slave Monostatos.
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Moorish-romantic touches like ottomans, lanterns, and magic-carpet rugs give this 1920s hotel an Old World vibe.
From the sfgate.com
Moorish gateways breach the ruddy walls.
From the theatlantic.com
- A style of architecture common in Spain from the 13th to 16th centuries; characterized by horseshoe-shaped arches
- Relating to or characteristic of the Moors; "Moorish courtyard"
- The description Moors has referred to several historic and modern populations of Berber, Black African and Arab descent from Northern Africa, some of whom came to conquer and occupy the Iberian Peninsula for nearly 800 years. ...
- Of or pertaining to the Moors or their culture; Of or pertaining to a style of Spanish architecture from the time of the Moors, characterized by the horseshoe arch and ornate, geometric decoration
- (Moors) Muslim North Africans; nomadic people of the northern shores of Africa, largely Arab and Berber.
- (Moors) Muslim traders from the Arabian peninsular and South India - first mentioned in Ceylon in early C8th. To the Kandyan Sinhalese those Muslims domiciled in the Kingdom were known as marakkalayo and those on the coast as hanbankarayo; known by the Portuguese as Moors.
- (Moors) The term used to identify the Moslems who invaded the Iberian peninsula beginning in the early eighth century and continued to occupy regions until the late fifteenth century.
- (Moors) the Muslim Arab conquerors of Spain in the Middle Ages
- (moors) wild area of country side
