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‖ mirador|miraˈdor|
Also miradore.
[Sp., f. mirar to look.]
a. A watch-tower. Also fig.
b. A turret or belvedere on the top of a Spanish house.
1670Dryden Conq. Granada i. i, Your valiant Son, who had before Gain'd Fame, rode round to ev'ry Mirador. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) IV. 9/2 Few are without a mirador or turret for the purpose of commanding a view of the sea. 1832W. Irving Alhambra I. 112 The delightful belvidere, originally a mirador of the Moorish Sultanas. 1888Pall Mall G. 4 Sept. 14/1 The curious miradores, or turrets on the tops of the houses. 1950G. Brenan Face of Spain iv. 80 We went into the house. One wing, that of the mirador or tower, had been set aside for our books and furniture. 1955J. Thomas No Banners xxxi. 310 The miradors (watch-towers) around Buchenwald were manned by Wehrmacht troops. 1971Homes & Gardens Aug. 36/1 Spanish women were generally kept in the background, and watched the world from behind their wooden miradors. 1971Nat. Geographic Oct. 547/1, I spent several weeks last spring in this brilliant mirador of capitalist colonialism on the edge of China. |