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Basque
Definitions
- 1 Relating to the Basque people or their language. not-comparable
- 1 The language of the Basque people.
"If you like a challenge, try Hungarian. It’s like no other European language you’ve heard, except maybe Basque."
- 1 A member of a cultural and ethnic people living in the western Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay between France and Spain.
- 2 The part of a waistcoat etc. extending below the waist.
- 3 the language of the Basque people; of no known relation to any other language wordnet
- 4 A woman's close-fitting bodice, underbodice, or corset having such a feature.
"Will she be able to pull off the double act? Can she play the cosy tradwife and still be the sexpot in a basque?"
- 5 a member of a people of unknown origin living in the western Pyrenees in France and Spain wordnet
Etymology
Borrowed from French basque, from Gascon Occitan basc, from Latin Vascō, Vascōnēs pl, a pre-Roman era tribe settled in the Atlantic Biscaian gulf and Pyrenean mountain region of south-western Europe, who were ancestors of the current Basque population.
Borrowed from French basque, from Gascon Occitan basc, from Latin Vascō, Vascōnēs pl, a pre-Roman era tribe settled in the Atlantic Biscaian gulf and Pyrenean mountain region of south-western Europe, who were ancestors of the current Basque population.
Borrowed from French basque, from Gascon Occitan basc, from Latin Vascō, Vascōnēs pl, a pre-Roman era tribe settled in the Atlantic Biscaian gulf and Pyrenean mountain region of south-western Europe, who were ancestors of the current Basque population.
Borrowed from French basque.
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