Moresque

[ muh-resk ]

adjective

1. Moorish.

Moresque

/ mɔːˈrɛsk /

adjective

1. (esp of decoration and architecture) of Moorish style

noun

1. 1. Moorish design or decoration
   2. a specimen of this

Word History and Origins

Origin of Moresque¹

1605–15; < Middle French < Italian moresco, equivalent to Mor ( o ) Moor + -esco -esque

Word History and Origins

Origin of Moresque¹

C17: from French, from Italian moresco, from Moro Moor

Example Sentences

The buyers commenced to throng about the booths, which were all designated by sculptured or pictured signs, and recalled by reason of their shape and small dimensions the moresque booths of Algiers.

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An interlaced framework of geometrical figures—circles, squares, and diamonds—with scrollwork running through it, the ornaments which are of Moresque character, generally azured in whole or in part, sometimes in outline only.

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Ornaments are of Moresque character.

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Long before the fifteenth century, however, with its rather artificial mania for everything Moresque, the Arab spirit had been at work upon Spanish literature, although in a feeble and unconscious manner.

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It describes the dexterity of Ganzul, a noble Moor, in the bull-ring, and is certainly not without its quota of Moresque colour.

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