morisco

plural moriscos · plural moriscoes

1. Alternative letter-case form of Morisco.

plural Moriscos · plural Moriscoes · alternative Moresco

1. historicalA Moor, especially one who had converted to Christianity.

   In May, 1600, the Count of Benavente, then viceroy of Valencia, was ordered to report whether the Moriscos of that kingdom had any intelligence with France.

   1901, Henry Charles Lea, The Moriscos of Spain: Their Conversion and Expulsion, page 285

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   It is not uncommon for the reader of many histories of the expulsion of the Moriscos, both those written at the time and more modern ones, to be left with the impression that the expulsion was an enterprise carried out without opposition, an act accepted both by the Moriscos, who directly suffered from it, […]

   2014, Trevor J. Dadson, Tolerance and Coexistence in Early Modern Spain: Old Christians and Moriscos in the Campo de Calatrava, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, →ISBN, page 123

2. architectureThe Moorish style of architecture.

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   Ambrosio de Letinez, a fictitious hero of the early nineteenth century, accurately described the typical architecture of northern Mexico: “The style of building is the Morisco … throughout … Mexico; that is to say, the houses are almost universally one story high, with flat terrace roofs and few windows to the street. […]”

   2008, W. Eugene George, Lost Architecture of the Rio Grande Borderlands, Texas A&M University Press, →ISBN, page 28

3. obsoletedanceThe morris dance.

   Your wit skips a morisco; but, by the brightest spangle of tire, I vouchsafe you entire unaffected favour.

   1601, John Marston, What You Will, act 4, scene 1

4. obsoletedanceA morris dancer.

   I have seen / Him caper upright like a wild Morisco, / Shaking the bloody darts as he his bells.

   1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, act 3, scene 1

alternative Moresco

1. The Moorish language.

   But what makes him different from other comic figures are his Moorish customs and his Morisco dialect.

   1983, Robert J. Di Pietro, William Frawley, Alfred Wedel, Selected Papers, University of Delaware Press, →ISBN, page 69

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   As well as noting the existence of a language different from Castilian in Valencia and Catalonia, he discusses Basque at some length, refers to the “Morisco” spoken in the Alpujarras near Granada, and is probably the first foreigner to mention a group that can be identified with the Mauregatos.

   2000, J. N. Hillgarth, The Mirror of Spain, 1500-1700: The Formation of a Myth, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 81