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Meanings of moors in English
Synonyms
Examples for "moriscos"
Examples for "moriscos"
1
To the Moriscos the suffering was personal; to Spain it was national.
2
At that time we were quartered in Seville, to keep guard on the suspected Moriscos.
3
The weak point in the organization of the Moriscos lay in the character of their king.
4
That of the Moriscos was not so inhuman in its consequences, but it was serious enough.
5
Anales, año 1487.-Marmol ,Rebelionde Moriscos, lib.
1
In 1609 all the Moriscoes were ordered to depart from the Peninsula within three days.
2
What is a poor crippled jester compared with a powerful scullery maid or an army of heathen Moriscoes?
3
The Moriscoes were the back-bone of the industrial population, not only in trade and manufactures, but also in agriculture.
4
His success in subduing the Moriscoes naturally designated him, in spite of his extreme youth, for this high command.
5
Lundy was then seized by the King, but forty years later the Moriscoes once more gained possession of it.
Usage of moors in English
1
Soon they cleared the churchtown and entered the darkness of the moors.
2
The flying horizons of the moors had slipped away into the darkness.
3
The old Norfolk jacket had walked the moors that morning with Jane.
4
Afterwards you took her back across the moors to catch the wagonette.
5
The Arkwright house belonged in a Gothic novel, brooding over windswept moors.
6
I had seen enough lightning storms as a child on the moors.
7
Then she caught a glimpse of Carn Brea and the purple moors.
8
We're on the eastern expanse of the moors, south of the Beak.
9
I wanted to go mountain biking up on the moors with Eddie.
10
She insisted on bundling everybody out for a blow on the moors.
11
I was just taking a little ramble over the moors, she explained.
12
We will go across the moors, we will climb our little hill.
13
England's changing into a desert, the bogs and moors are drying up.
14
The moors over near Cloomber are just white wi' gulls and kittiewakes.
15
It was a long, harassing journey, over moors and along stony roads.
16
He was an artistic man, and painted landscapes of moors and sunsets.
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Moors through the time
Moors across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common