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Moresco, a. and n.|mɒˈrɛskəʊ|
Also 6 moresko.
[a. It. moresco, f. Moro Moor n.2: see -esque. Cf. the Sp. form Morisco.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to the Moors; Moorish.
1551W. Thomas tr. Barbaro's Trav. (1873) 52 Besides him was his buckler of the Moresco fac̃on with his scimitarra. 1584W. Barret in Hakluyt's Voy. (1599) II. i. 272 The said mamedine is of siluer, hauing the Moresco stampe on both sides. 1673Ray Journ. Low C. 482 Within there is all the same kind of Moresco-work. a1780Watson Philip III, iii. (1783) 288 A tax..a part of which he was authorised to employ in building..a Moresco college. 1832W. Irving Alhambra II. 4 A small gallery supported by..moresco arches.
B. n.
1. A Moor, esp. one of the Moors in Spain.
1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 805/1 The torchbearers were apparelled in crimsin sattin and greene, like Moreskoes, their faces blacke. 1777Watson Philip II (1839) 65 The Morescoes in Spain. 1845Encycl. Metrop. XII. 526/1 An Edict was published, forbidding the Morescoes, under pain of death, from using their native language.
†2. The Moorish language. Obs.
1615G. Sandys Trav. 110 Some in the Copticke language, vnderstood but by few; most in the Moresco. 1678J. Phillips tr. Tavernier's Trav. I. ii. v. 76 The little Moresco or Gibbrish of the Country.
3. An Italian dance to which the English morris dance is related. Cf. Morisca, Moriska.
It. has the fem. moresca in this sense.
1625Purchas Pilgrims II. vii. iv. 1020 According to the sound they dance and moue their feet, as it were in a Moresco, with great grauitie. [1869W. Gilbert Lucrezia Borgia I. 213 Between each act of the comedies a moresca was to be performed.] 1933E. K. Chambers Eng. Folk-Play 150 A Moresca or Morisco first appears in the fifteenth century used as intermedii in the courtly ludi of Italy, Burgundy, and France. 1947A. Einstein Mus. Romantic Era xvii. 293 Even the separate regions..began to make themselves heard: in Italy around 1535, for example, the Canzon villanesca alla napoletana, or the Moresca in the south of the peninsula. 1959Collins Music Encycl. 437/1 Moresca,..a dance of the 15th and 16th cent., most often a sword dance in which a fight between Christians and Mohammedans was represented.
attrib.1715tr. C'tess D'Aunoy's Wks. 464 They exceeded all the Tumblers and Moresco-dancers in Activity.
4. Arabesque ornament.
1823Crabb Technol. Dict., Moresque-work (Paint. &c.) or moresco. |