morisco
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morisco¹
noun moriscos · moriscoes
- Alternative letter-case form of Morisco
Morisco²
- /məˈrɪskəʊ/
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Spanish morisco (“Moorish”), from moro (“Moor”).
noun Moriscos · Moriscoes · Moresco
- A Moor, especially one who had converted to Christianity. 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.
- The Moorish style of architecture. 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 win
- The morris dance. Your wit skips a morisco; but, by the brightest spangle of tire, I vouchsafe you entire unaffected favour.
- A morris dancer. I have seen / Him caper upright like a wild Morisco, / Shaking the bloody darts as he his bells.
proper noun Moresco
- The Moorish language. But what makes him different from other comic figures are his Moorish customs and his Morisco dialect.
Talk about this word "morisco." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/morisco. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. morisco. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/morisco "morisco." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/morisco.
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@misc{morisco_2026,
title = {morisco},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/morisco},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
