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  • noun Alternative form of Morisco.

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Spanish morisco Moorish.

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Examples

  • Just before we came to Andernach, an antiquated town with strange morisco-looking towers, I spied a raft, at least three hundred feet in length, on which ten or twelve cottages were erected, and a great many people employed in sawing wood.

    Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents Beckford, William 1891

  • The convent discovers itself through their branches, built in a style somewhat morisco, and level with the sea, except where the garden intervenes.

    Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents Beckford, William 1891

  • Virgen y los santos de la Corte celestial, escritas en versos árabes por un perro morisco del marquesado del Cenet durante la

    Novelas Cortas Pedro Antonio de Alarc��n 1862

  • Aldeire, dicho sea con perdón de su señor cura, es un pueblo morisco.

    Novelas Cortas Pedro Antonio de Alarc��n 1862

  • Just before we came to Andernach, an antiquated town with strange morisco-looking towers, I spied a raft, at least three hundred feet in length, on which ten or twelve cottages were erected, and a great many people employed in sawing wood.

    Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents William Beckford 1801

  • The convent discovers itself through their branches, built in a style somewhat morisco, and level with the sea, except where the garden intervenes.

    Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents William Beckford 1801

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  • Cordoba Sevilla islam andalucia andalousse andaloussi maroc morocco moroccan marocain aljazair algerie alger fes fez rabat tetouan chaouen salé tanger sebta seuta melillia moros morisco moro morisca el moro arab espana andalou andalus chefchaouen Inquisición española aljamiado

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  • There were terms for a Christian living under Arab rule (mozarab), a Muslim living under Christian rule (mudejar), a Christian who converted to Islam (muladi), a Jew who converted to Christianity (converso), a Jew who converted but remained a secret Jew (marrano) and a Muslim who converted to Christianity (morisco). . .

    Philocrites: September 2003 Archives 2003

  • This evening being the occasion of the Mardian Mumming or Sword Dance (which is perhaps the more proper way of describing it than as a morisco or morris) I have thought to set down the ceremony as it was performed in my childhood, for I have perceived since the death of old Yeo Andersen at Copse Forge there has been an abridgement of the doggerel which I fear either through indifference, forgetfulness or sheepishness on the part of the morris side — if morris or morisco it can be named — may become altogether neglected and lost.

    Death of a Fool Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1956

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