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Definitions of moorish in various dictionaries:
noun - a style of architecture common in Spain from the 13th to 16th centuries
adj - relating to or characteristic of the Moors
Of or relating to the Moors or their culture.
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| Term for Spain's Islamic art, it comes from the Muslim group that conquered the country in the eighth century |
| (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark.) The Grand Bazaar, one of Tivoli's loveliest buildings, was designed in this exotic style, also known as Moresco |
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| Boggy, marshy like a moor. |
| bMoorishb. Use bMoorishb in a sentence. adjective. Of or relating to the bMoorsb or their culture. Of, relating to, or being a style of Spanish architecture of the 8th to the 16th century, characterized by the horseshoe arch and ornate decoration. |
| belonging or relating to the group of Muslim people from North Africa who ruled Spain from 711 to 1492: |
| a style of architecture common in Spain from the 13th to 16th centuries characterized by the horseshoe (Moorish) arch |
| relating to or characteristic of the Moors |
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| The term "Moors" refers primarily to the Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb, the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, and Malta during the Middle Ages. The Moors initially were the indigenous Maghrebine Berbers. The name was later also applied to Arabs.Moors are not a distinct or self-defined people, and the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica observed that "The term 'Moors' has no real ethnological value." Europeans of the Middle Ages and the early modern period variously applied the name to Arabs, North African Berbers, and Muslim Europeans.The term has also been used in Europe in a broader, somewhat derogatory sense to refer to Muslims in general, especially those of Arab or Berber descent, whether living in Spain or North Africa. During the colonial era, the Portuguese introduced the names "Ceylon Moors" and "Indian Moors" in Sri Lanka, and the Bengali Muslims were also called Moors. In the Philippines, the longstanding Muslim community, which predates the arrival of the Spanish, |