Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a traditionally Muslim people of mixed Berber and Arab ancestry, now living chiefly in northwest Africa.
- noun One of the Muslims who invaded Spain in the 8th century and established a civilization in Andalusia that lasted until the late 15th century.
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- noun historical A member of an ancient
Berber people fromNumidia . - noun historical A member of an Islamic people of
Arab orBerber origin rulingSpain and parts ofNorth Africa from the 8th to the 15th centuries. - noun archaic A Muslim or a person from the Middle East or Africa.
- noun dated A person of mixed Arab and Berber ancestry inhabiting the Mediterranean coastline of northwest
Africa . - noun A person of an ethnic group speaking the
Hassaniya language, mainly inhabitingWestern Sahara ,Mauritania , and parts of neighbouring countries (Morocco ,Mali ,Senegal etc.).
Etymologies
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Perhaps it was a baby wild cat of Bodmin Moor, who knows?
The Bodmin Kitten 2007
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Perhaps it was a baby wild cat of Bodmin Moor, who knows?
The Bodmin Kitten 2007
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Perhaps it was a baby wild cat of Bodmin Moor, who knows?
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It is high on the edges of Bodmin Moor, north of the ancient market town of Bodmin.
View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2005
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It is high on the edges of Bodmin Moor, north of the ancient market town of Bodmin.
Archive 2005-08-21 Michael Evans 2005
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Spanish named them indiscriminately _Mauros_, and _Moors_ they have been ever since; but the name Moor can be traced back as far as 23 A.D., when
In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory
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Your typical Moor is a handsome fellow, characterised by marked dignity of demeanour, and distinctly intellectual.
Militarism versus Feminism: An Enquiry and a Policy Demonstrating that Militarism involves the Subjection of Women Charles Kay 1915
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And he called a Moor who spake the mixed language, and instructed him how to get out of the city by night, so that the
Chronicle of the Cid Various 1808
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My husband and son were ready to go off-roading, and so we turned off onto what was really a goat superhighway on the side of Bodmin Moor, which, running at a higher gradient than the road we’d left behind, allowed us to watch the poor folk stuck in the jam as we whizzed by them.
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My husband and son were ready to go off-roading, and so we turned off onto what was really a goat superhighway on the side of Bodmin Moor, which, running at a higher gradient than the road we’d left behind, allowed us to watch the poor folk stuck in the jam as we whizzed by them.
What My Dark Side Did On Holiday « Tales from the Reading Room 2009
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