Old Castile

[ ka-steel ]

noun

1. a region in N Spain: formerly a province.

Old Castile

noun

1. a region of N Spain, on the Bay of Biscay: formerly a province Spanish nameCastilla la Vieja

Example Sentences

Born at Calaruega, in Old Castile, in 1170, of a stock which his brethren love to connect with the royal house, his saintliness was so penetrating that it reflected back upon his mother, who is reverenced as St. Juana de Aga, and at one time there was danger that even his father might be drawn into the saintly circle.

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New England is a very different sort of place from Old Castile.

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There were steep ascents and violent descents, but no traces of carriage wheels, and so it is throughout the whole of Old Castile.

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I saw, in imagination, the uplands of Old Castile, as I had often heard them described, hot in summer and bleak in winter.

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Beyond Miranda, the first town of old Castile, the desolate scene appeared in its full awfulness.

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