moros y cristianos
Spanish
FWOTD – 12 August 2014
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmo.ɾos i kɾis.ˈtja.nos/
Noun
moros y cristianos m pl (plural only)
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see moros, y, cristianos.
- a traditional festival celebrated in various cities across Spain, during which a mediaeval battle between pompously dressed Moors and Christians is simulated, ending with the Christians retaking the city
- 2003, Marlène Albert-Llorca, José Antonio González Alcantud, Moros y Cristianos, Presses Universitaires du Mirail, page 12:
- Los misioneros que introdujeron las comedias de moros y cristianos en el Nuevo Mundo hicieron de la oposición moros/cristianos una metáfora de la oposición entre indios y cristianos.
- The missionaries who introduced the Moor and Christian comedies into the New World turned the Moors/Christians opposition into a metaphor of the opposition between Indians and Christians.
- Los misioneros que introdujeron las comedias de moros y cristianos en el Nuevo Mundo hicieron de la oposición moros/cristianos una metáfora de la oposición entre indios y cristianos.
- 2003, Marlène Albert-Llorca, José Antonio González Alcantud, Moros y Cristianos, Presses Universitaires du Mirail, page 12:
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