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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Last Moorish king of Granada (1482–1483 and 1486–1492).
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Aragon, and Isabella of Castile, by that luckless monarch known as Boabdil el Chico (or "the little"), the last remnant of the power of the Moors in
Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey
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It was thereby proposed that Mahomet Abdallah, otherwise called Boabdil, should hold his crown as vassal to the
Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada Washington Irving 1821
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The giant "El Cid" sculpture group (1927), by Mr. Huntington's wife, Anna Hyatt Huntington, as well as her reliefs of "Don Quixote" (1943) and "Boabdil" (1942), command the courtyard of Audubon Terrace.
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After two weeks, within which he produced "Boabdil," "Fidelio," and some light-waisted spectacular things, he turned his theater over to Koster & Bial, who ran it as a vaudeville house until the end of its short career.
Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888
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When the old Manhattan Opera House, so soon abandoned to the uses of vaudeville, opened its doors with Moszkowski's "Boabdil," on January
Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888
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"Boabdil," replied the Israelite, "is aroused against both his army and their leader, Muza; the king will not quit the Alhambra; and this morning, ere I left the city, Muza himself was in the prisons of the palace."
Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"Boabdil," replied the Israelite, "is aroused against both his army and their leader, Muza; the king will not quit the Alhambra; and this morning, ere I left the city, Muza himself was in the prisons of the palace."
Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Book II. Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Loja, tragically lost key of Granada, sister of famed Alhama, stronghold of that fierce alcayde who called Boabdil’s sultana daughter!
The Car of Destiny Armand [Illustrator] Both 1901
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a picture full of interest, recording the adieux of "Boabdil" and
Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond Budgett Meakin 1886
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Unless Boabdil is looking for a man who calls himself "Bucho" I cant see Antonio reviving his catatonic career with a movie like this.
Antonio Banderas to Write, Direct and Star in a Boabdil Biopic « FirstShowing.net 2010
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