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ALHAMBRESQUE

\ɐlhɐmbɹˈɛsk], \ɐlhɐmbɹˈɛsk], \ɐ_l_h_ɐ_m_b_ɹ_ˈɛ_s_k]\

Definitions of ALHAMBRESQUE

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language

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Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture.

1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
By Noah Webster.

al-ham'bresk, adj. after the style of the rich ornamentation of the Alhambra, a palace of the Moorish kings of Granada in Spain.

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson

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