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Moorish describes the Moors — Muslim people from North Africa who ruled much of Spain for centuries. We use it most about their art and buildings: horseshoe arches, rich tiles, courtyards, as in the palaces of southern Spain. A Moorish design is in that style, even if it was made later or somewhere else. The word is about history and culture, not about a marsh or a moor. It is usually written with a capital M, because it comes from a people's name. In ordinary talk it is a fairly educated word; you meet it in museums, travel writing, and architecture.
摩爾人的；摩爾式的
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Moorishadj/ˈmʊə.ɹɪʃ/
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Of or pertaining to the Moors or their culture.
- I joy to see you wear around your neck the holy relic I bestowed on you; — but what Moorish charmlet is that you wear beside it?
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architectureOf or pertaining to a style of Spanish and Portuguese architecture from the time of the Moors, characterized by the horseshoe arch and ornate, geometric decoration.
- Mar-a-Lago was quiet three days before Thanksgiving. Donald Trump’s Moorish palace seemed all but deserted late that morning, the seaside estate’s cavernous living room traversed intermittently by a junior staffer or silent aide.
moorishadj/ˈmɔːɹɪʃ/
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archaicOf ground, soil etc: boggy, marshy.
- Make heauen to frowne and euery fixed ſtarre To ſucke vp poiſon from the Mooriſh Fens, And poure it in this glorious Tyrants throat.
- [G]low-worms, fire-drakes, meteors, ignis fatuus […] with many such that appear in moorish grounds, about churchyards, moist valleys, or where battles have been fought […] .
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Resembling or characteristic of a moor; abounding in moorland.
- He recommended to me to plant a considerable part of a large moorish farm which I had purchased, and he made several calculations of the expence and profit: for he delighted in exercising his mind on the science of numbers.
- The Lent term had pulled me down, a week of modest enjoyment thereafter in town had finished the work; and I drank in the sharp moorish air like a thirsty man who has been forwandered among deserts.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。