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Mauresque   Listen
adjective
Mauresque  adj., n.  See Moresque.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Mauresque" Quotes from Famous Books



... is this Romanesque!" Durtal went on. "Is it not also the smoke-stained shrine, the gloomy retreat, constructed for black Virgins? This seems all the less doubtful because all the Mauresque Virgins are thick-set and heavy; they are not sylphs, like the fair Virgins of Gothic art. The Byzantine School conceived of Mary as swarthy, 'of the hue of polished brown ebony,' as the old historians say; only, in opposition to the text in Canticles, ...
— The Cathedral • Joris-Karl Huysmans



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