Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word BASQUE

---

Definitions of BASQUE

1. The language of the Basque people.
2. The part of a waistcoat etc. extending below the waist.
3. A woman's close-fitting bodice, underbodice, or corset having such a feature.
4. A member of a cultural and ethnic people living in the western Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay between France and Spain.
5. Relating to the Basque people or their language.

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

Examples of Using BASQUE in a Sentence

• He was the son of Fruela I and Munia, a Basque woman captured and brought back to Asturias by the former following a military campaign.
• D'Abbadie was born a British subject, in Dublin, Ireland, from a partially Basque noble family of the French province of Soule.
• It spread throughout the Pyrenees to areas where languages similar to modern Basque might have been previously spoken.
• Gipuzkoa, most of Biscay, a few municipalities on the northern border of Álava and the northern area of Navarre formed the core of the remaining Basque-speaking area before measures were introduced in the 1980s to strengthen Basque fluency.
• Several coins from the 2nd and the 1st centuries BC found in the Basque Country bear the inscription barscunes.
• Bayonne is located at the confluence of the Nive and Adour rivers in the northern part of the cultural region of the Basque Country.
• The group was founded in 1959 during the era of Francoist Spain, and later evolved from a pacifist group promoting traditional Basque culture to a violent paramilitary group.
• Francis Xavier, SJ (born Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta; Latin: Franciscus Xaverius; Basque:Xabierkoa; French: François Xavier; Spanish: Francisco Javier; Portuguese: Francisco Xavier; 7 April 15063 December 1552), venerated as Saint Francis Xavier, was a Basque cleric.
• Some languages such as Georgian and Basque have highly complex conjugation systems with hundreds of possible conjugations for every verb.
• January 12 – The Basque witch trials are started in Spain as the court of the Inquisition at Logroño receives a letter from the commissioner of the village of Zugarramurdi, and orders the arrest of four women, including María de Jureteguía and María Chipía de Barrenetxea.
• Waifer's Basque troops are defeated by the Franks, and deported into northern France with their children and wives.
• Laffite is believed to have been born either in Biarritz, in the French Basque Country, France, or the French colony of Saint-Domingue in the Caribbean.
• The official names of the autonomous communities can be in Spanish only (which applies to the majority of them), in the co-official language in the community only (as in the Valencian Community and the Balearic Islands), or in both Spanish and the co-official language (as in the Basque Country, Navarre and Galicia).
• The lyrics were written by Basque nationalist writer Sabino Arana, and its melody is based on an old Basque tune.
• Fermín de Francisco Lasuén de Arasqueta (7 June 1736 – Mission de San Carlos (California), 26 June 1803) was a Basque Franciscan missionary to Alta California president of the Franciscan missions there, and founder of nine of the twenty-one Spanish missions in California.
• Anouilh was born in Cérisole, a small village on the outskirts of Bordeaux, France and had Basque ancestry.
• Eusko Gudariak (originally spelt Euzko Gudariak, "Basque Soldiers") was the republican anthem of the Eusko Gudarostea, the army of the Basque Autonomous Government during the Spanish Civil War.
• Bilbao is a city in northern Spain, the largest city in the province of Biscay and in the Basque Country as a whole.
• It borders the Basque provinces of Biscay and Gipuzkoa to the north, the community of La Rioja to the south, the province of Burgos (in the community of Castile and León) to the west and the community of Navarre to the east.
• Rioja wine is made from grapes grown in the autonomous communities of La Rioja and Navarre, and the Basque province of Álava.

Page preparation took: 208.41 ms.