Meanings of morisco in English

The convent discovers itself through their branches, built in a style somewhat morisco, and level with the sea, except where the garden intervenes.

It was of a composite architecture, between the Morisco and the Spanish.

The 'Morisco,' of course, has changed the less of the two.

For intercourse with the Morisco had by no means ceased.

The renegade asked her in the Morisco language if her father was in the house.

The history of the Dionysiac dance has a fairly exact parallel in that of the 'Morisco.'

'Gainst pale light a shape Morisco wrought in faded tapestry.

We GarcIas are supposed to have Morisco blood; perhaps I have the harem outlook of my dark Muslim ancestors.

Some light Morisco leaps with his guitar;

The 'Morisco' they called it; and it was much admired; and the fashion of it spread throughout Spain-scaled the very Pyrenees, and invaded France.

Born of Morisco parents, I am of that nation, more unhappy than wise, upon which of late a sea of woes has poured down.

The kinsmen and friends of the Morisco chief rode in his train, and after them came a regiment of infantry and a troop of horse.

The connection with Mars suggests a possible etymology for the Morris,-whichis usually explained, for want of something better, as a Morisco or Moorish dance.

This woman is thought to be from the Morisco community - former Muslims who converted to Christianity (only to be expelled from Spain later on).

"I do believe he is no king, my Pedro," she said, "but only, as he says, a poor Morisco beggar.