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- noun Plural form of
Castilian .
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Examples
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Peradventure the Castilians were the cause of again closing the door to the preaching of the gospel, being moved by indiscreet eagerness or too much solicitude.
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Chinese or Castilians; and the third and last reason, that the people slain by the Castilians were a base people, ungrateful to China, their native country, to their parents, and to their relatives, since so many years had passed during which they had not returned to China.
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It is acknowledged to have been written when the Castilians were the rulers of the land; when bishops were preaching the word of Dios, the new God; when the ancient traditions of the people were gradually dying out.
Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion 1861
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The people are ignorant and brutal, though they boast themselves to be Old Castilians, which is however not the fact, as these desolate and benighted regions belong to what was once the kingdom of Leon.
Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society George Henry Borrow 1842
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"Castilians" as the St. Andrews faction was called; whereas French interference on behalf of the Government would immensely strengthen the anti-English party.
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Regional stereotypes stretch from partying Andalucians, to dour Castilians, laconic Galicians, penny-pinching Catalans and industrious, chaste Basques.
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That is, they look like Castilians or Lombards, not like mestizos or Sicilians.
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That is, they look like Castilians or Lombards, not like mestizos or Sicilians.
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That is, they look like Castilians or Lombards, not like mestizos or Sicilians.
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That is, they look like Castilians or Lombards, not like mestizos or Sicilians.
Motivated by a Tax, Irish Spurn Plastic Bags « Isegoria 2008
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