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Definition: MORISCO |
MORISCOAdjective1. Moresque. Noun1. A thing of Moorish origin; as: (a) The Moorish language. (b) A Moorish dance, now called morris dance. Marston. (c) One who dances the Moorish dance. Shak. (d) Moresque decoration or architecture. |
Date "MORISCO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
"MORISCO" is a common misspelling or typo for: Morocco, Morrison. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Dance; hop, reel, rigadoon, saraband, hornpipe, bolero, ballroom dance; minuet, waltz, polka, fox trot, tango, samba, rhumba, twist, stroll, hustle, cha-cha; fandango, cancan; bayadere; breakdown, cake-walk, cornwallis, break dancing; nautch-girl; shindig; skirtdance, stag dance, Virginia reel, square dance; galop, galopade; jig, Irish jig, fling, strathspey; allemande; gavot, gavotte, tarantella; mazurka, morisco, morris dance; quadrille; country dance, folk dance; cotillon, Sir Roger de Coverley; ballet; (drama); ball; bal, bal masque, bal costume; masquerade; Terpsichore. |
Ornament | Pattern, diaper, powdering, paneling, graining, pargeting; detail; repousse (convexity); texture; richness; tracery, molding, fillet, listel, strapwork, coquillage, flourish, fleur-de-lis, arabesque, fret, anthemion; egg and tongue, egg and dart; astragal, zigzag, acanthus, cartouche; pilaster; (projection); bead, beading; champleve ware, cloisonne ware; frost work, Moresque, Morisco, tooling. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In historical studies of minoritisation, Morisco is also applied to other historical crypto-Muslims, in places such as Norman Sicily, 9th century Crete, and other areas along the medieval Christian-Muslim frontier.
Moriscos can also be classified in medieval Islamic jurisprudence as mudejar, or those who submit, this being the more common term in Arabic sources.
See also: Aben Humeya, aljamiado.
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Crosswords: MORISCO |
| English words defined with "MORISCO": Morice, Morisk. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "MORISCO": moresque. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "MORISCO" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Spanish (Mauretanian, Moorish, Moresque). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
morisco | 3 |
jenna morisco | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-m-o-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: micros. | |
-2 letters: coirs, corms, micro, moors, osmic, rooms, scrim. | |
-3 letters: coir, coos, corm, cors, cris, mirs, miso, mocs, moor, moos, mors, orcs, rims, rocs, roms, room, sori. | |
-4 letters: cis, coo, cor, cos, ism, mir, mis, moc, moo, mor, mos, oms, orc, ors, rim, roc, rom, sic, sim, sir, som, sri. | |
-5 letters: is, mi, mo, om. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-m-o-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: colorism, miscolor, omicrons, sickroom. | |
+2 letters: acromions, coliforms, colorisms, microcosm, microdots, micromhos, microsome, miscolors, mouchoirs, scombroid, sickrooms, sociogram. | |
+3 letters: astronomic, broomstick, comparison, compositor, compromise, conformism, conformist, consortium, discomfort, doronicums, ecotourism, ergonomics, frolicsome, hypocorism, isomorphic, microcodes, microcosms, microforms, micromoles, micropores, microscope, microscopy, microsomal, microsomes, microspore, microtomes, microtones, microvolts, miscolored, monorchids, osmometric, scombroids, seriocomic, sociograms, sociometry, sophomoric. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 4F 52 49 53 43 4F |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- .-. .. ... -.-. --- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01001111 01010010 01001001 01010011 01000011 01001111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M O R I S C O |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 004F 0052 0049 0053 0043 004F |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47495243533749 |
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