morisco
/məˈrɪskəʊ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.37 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Morisco.
noun
A Moor, especially one who had converted to Christianity.
noun
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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, […]"
- "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. […]”"
- "Your wit skips a morisco; but, by the brightest spangle of tire, I vouchsafe you entire unaffected favour."
- "I have seen / Him caper upright like a wild Morisco, / Shaking the bloody darts as he his bells."
- "But what makes him different from other comic figures are his Moorish customs and his Morisco dialect."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: morisco