Meaning of morisco | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of Morisco.
   alt-of
2. A Moor, especially one who had converted to Christianity.
   historical
3. The Moorish language.
4. The Moorish style of architecture.
5. The morris dance.
   obsolete
6. A morris dancer.
   obsolete

Examples

“In May, 1600, the Count of Benavente, then viceroy of Valencia, was ordered to report whether the Moriscos of that kingdom had any intelligence with France.”

“It is not uncommon for the reader of many histories of the expulsion of the Moriscos, both those written at the time and more modern ones, to be left with the impression that the expulsion was an enterprise carried out without opposition, an act accepted both by the Moriscos, who directly suffered from it, […]”

“Ambrosio de Letinez, a fictitious hero of the early nineteenth century, accurately described the typical architecture of northern Mexico: “The style of building is the Morisco … throughout … Mexico; that is to say, the houses are almost universally one story high, with flat terrace roofs and few windows to the street. […]””

“Your wit skips a morisco; but, by the brightest spangle of tire, I vouchsafe you entire unaffected favour.”

“I have seen / Him caper upright like a wild Morisco, / Shaking the bloody darts as he his bells.”

“But what makes him different from other comic figures are his Moorish customs and his Morisco dialect.”

“As well as noting the existence of a language different from Castilian in Valencia and Catalonia, he discusses Basque at some length, refers to the “Morisco” spoken in the Alpujarras near Granada, and is probably the first foreigner to mention a group that can be identified with the Mauregatos.”

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