单词 | moresca |
释义 | Morescan. = Morisco n. 2a. Cf. Morisca n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > morris-dance > [noun] Morisk dance1448 morris dance1458 Morisk1467 morris1503 Moresque1508 Moriscoc1560 Moresco1567 morris dancing1588 hobby-horse1670 hobby-horse dance1686 Moor dance1801 Moresca1869 1869 W. Gilbert Lucrezia Borgia I. 213 Between each act of the comedies a moresca was to be performed. 1933 E. K. Chambers Eng. Folk-play 150 A Moresca or Morisco first appears in the fifteenth century used as intermedii in the courtly ludi of Italy, Burgundy, and France. 1947 A. Einstein Music Romantic Era xvii. 293 Even the separate regions..began to make themselves heard: in Italy around 1535, for example, the Canzon villanesca alla napoletana, or the Moresca in the south of the peninsula. 1959 Collins Music Encycl. 437/1 Moresca,..a dance of the 15th and 16th cent., most often a sword dance in which a fight between Christians and Mohammedans was represented. 1976 Gramophone Jan. 1225/2 One half of it is devoted to solemn settings of the so-called Sybilline Prophecies, the other to gay, bawdy morescas. 1989 Theatre Res. Internat. 14 3 The theatrical aim with these ‘pyrotechnical moresche’ was to provide pure amusement. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1869 |
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