Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Characteristic of Moorish art or architecture.
- noun An ornament or a decoration in Moorish style.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Moorish; of Moorish design, or of design imitating Moorish work.
- noun A style of decoration by means of flat patterns, interlacings, simple scrolls, and the like, and usually in crude color or in slight relief on metal-work, founded upon Moorish decoration.
- noun Also spelled
Mauresque .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to, or in the manner or style of, the Moors; Moorish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective art, architecture
Moorish
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or characteristic of the Moors
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Hispano-Moresque more technically classified the Big
CHAPTER II 2010
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The estate, the historic, pre-Revolutionary Sterling farm house, greatly enlarged to include an incongruous but delightful, enclosed, tiled, Hispano-Moresque style patio with a fountain, was elegantly appointed.
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R. went up afterwards to cut its throat à la Moresque, when he was insulted by an Arab.
Travels in Morocco 2003
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A Moresque gentleman in turban who was in Philadelphia fairly rubbed his hands as he referred to the lavish opportunities for washing which were freely given in Philadelphia, and contrasted them with the state of things here, where it costs ten cents to wash your hands, and the supply of water is but meagre at that.
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For the expression of its purpose, with all the solidity and grace consistent with that, the Moresque structure before us is not excelled by any within the grounds.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 Various
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Hispano-Moresque and mellow ivories, a broad medal or so and a well-poised Renaissance bronze, a Japanese painting on the lighted wall, and one or two drawings by great contemporaries, Emma's friends, he was amazed at the quality of everything.
The Collectors Frank Jewett Mather
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This character is so pronounced, that I was obliged to examine more than twenty houses constructed in the same manner, and to study all the details of their construction, in order to assure myself that the windows had not really been taken from those fairy Moresque palaces, of which the Alhambra is the only remaining specimen.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Various
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Hispano-Moresque more technically classified the Big House in all its hybridness, although there were experts who heatedly quarreled with the term.
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To the above-mentioned types the Germans added especially the scroll work, which was by preference combined with the Moresque and then served as
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Order in Europe, famous for its cloister and its graceful Moresque colonnade.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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