Word: moorish
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...bride's uncles Victor and Ted Reuther gamely padded around in their socks and joined the festivities. Said a wide-eyed Victor: "If these walls could only talk, think what they'd be saying about a Reuther marrying in the Fisher home." His wonderment referred to the Moorish-style palace that was the scene of the wedding. Bought by the Krishna cult for about $350,000 (a good chunk of which was donated by Lekhasravanti and Ambarish), it was built in 1928 as the $2.5 million digs of the late Lawrence P. Fisher, onetime president of Cadillac...
...languages of tribes in the Southwest and Northeast are closely related to Iberic, a Moorish Arabic language, Libyan, Celtic, Basque, and other languages from that area, Fell said...
...says, "it's not the kind of thesis where I'm constantly looking for books--there isn't very much written on the subject." Instead, Sharry has culled his data from a series of visits he made to the continent, beginning with his 1974 stay with the Mauritanian Moorish ("Mauritanian means 'white Moor'") family. His hosts introduced the brotherhood into the Sahara and have been instrumental in its spread across black Africa...
...sporting life, which offered Franco virtually his only escape from official routine, was abandoned in recent years for the regal pleasures of a cloistered castle existence: liveried servants, Moorish guards on white stallions, walls covered with Goya tapestries-and obsequiousness everywhere. Foreign ambassadors who were granted audiences with the Caudillo had a precise protocol of steps and bows. In addition to his love of pomp, Franco was a man of rigid decorum, methodical habit and deep Christian piety; his orderly days included regular attendance at Mass and midnight recitation of the rosary with his wife, the former Carmen Polo...
...John and Mary had established a Catholic England. Would cross-Channel Calvinism have undermined it eventually? Suppose Luther had been unable to find a nail in Wittenberg for all those theses. Or better, suppose Guedalla's Boabdil had crossed the Pyrenees and swept through France, creating a Moorish Europe. Might there be mosques in Manchester today...