Moorish

(noun.) a style of architecture common in Spain from the 13th to 16th centuries; characterized by horseshoe-shaped arches.

(adj.) relating to or characteristic of the Moors; 'Moorish courtyard' .

哈洛录入

• I don't go about asking busy people what seven and sixpence is in Moorish--which I don't understand. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• At short intervals along the Spanish shore were quaint-looking old stone towers--Moorish, we thought--but learned better afterwards. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It was built in the Moorish fashion,--a square building enclosing a court-yard, into which the carriage drove through an arched gateway. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The manufacture entered Christendom either through Greece or by the capture of Moorish paper-mills during the Christian reconquest of Spain. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Before the end of the eleventh century an Arab born at Cordova, the capital of Moorish Spain, c onstructed the Toletan Tables. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• However, the Moorish heart is stout. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The Eastern voyagers go off dancing, like Papageno and the Moorish King in The Magic Flute. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• We form rather more than half the list of white passengers on board a small steamer bound for the venerable Moorish town of Tangier, Africa. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Moorish guns are not good, and neither are Moorish marksmen. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• While the Moors governed there, and the Spanish mixed with them, a Spanish cavalier, in a sudden quarrel, slew a young Moorish gentleman, and fled. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• We visited the jail and found Moorish prisoners making mats and baskets. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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