moorish

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moorish englanniksi

  1. Moorish

  1. Of ground, soil etc: boggy, marshy. (defdate)

  2. (RQ:Marlowe Tamburlaine)

  3. (RQ:Burton Melancholy), I.iii.3:

  4. Glow-worms, fire-drakes, meteors, ''ignis fatuus'' (..) with many such that appear in moorish grounds, about churchyards, moist valleys, or where battles have been fought (..).
  5. Resembling or characteristic of a moor; abounding in moorland. (defdate)

  6. {{quote-text|en|year=1791|author=James Boswell|title=Life of Johnson|page=880|publisher=Oxford|year_published=2008

  7. {{quote-text|en|year=1899|author=John Buchan|title=No Man's Land