moresca

Moresca (Italian), morisca (Spanish), mourisca (Portuguese) or moresque, mauresque (French), also known in French as the danse des bouffons, is a dance of exotic character encountered in Europe in the Renaissance period. This dance usually took form of medieval wars in Spain between Moors and Christians.

Our style of dancing originated in the cotton mill towns and pit villages of the North West of England, where clogs were the usual type of working footwear and where the Morris tradition was performed by men, women and children. This was rare in most of the other forms of ritual custom.

Definitions of Spain. a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power. synonyms: Espana, Kingdom of Spain. example of: European country, European nation.

1 a : living or located in the woods or forest b : of, relating to, or characteristic of the woods or forest 2 a : made from wood : wooden b : abounding in woods, groves, or trees : wooded.

noun [ U ] /ˈmɒr.ɪs ˌdɑːn.sɪŋ/ us. /ˈmɔːr.ɪs ˌdæn.sɪŋ/ Add to word list Add to word list. a type of traditional English dancing in which a group of people, especially men, dance together, wearing special clothes decorated with little bells.

It has been suggested that the tradition of rural English dancers blackening their faces may be a form of disguise, or a reference either to the Moors or to miners; the origins of the practice remain unclear and are the subject of ongoing debate.

Hispania Hispania, the name the Romans gave to the peninsula, is allegedly a Semitic word derived from Hispalis (Seville).

The two Spains (Spanish: las dos Españas) is a phrase from a short poem by Spanish poet Antonio Machado. The phrase, referring to the left-right political divisions that later led to the Spanish Civil War, originated in a short, untitled poem, number LIII of his Proverbios y Cantares (Proverbs and Songs).

from Wolseley in Colwich (Staffs) which is recorded as Wulfsieslega in 1175. The place-name derives from the Old English personal name Wulfsige (genitive Wulfsiges) + Old English lēah 'wood woodland clearing'. Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016.

Borrowed from Medieval Latin sylvanus, possibly via Middle French sylvain, from Latin Silvānus (“Roman god of the woods”), from silva (“forest”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”).

morris. noun. mor·​ris ˈmȯr-əs. ˈmär- : a vigorous English dance traditionally performed by men wearing costumes and bells.

Morris is a boy's name of Latin origin. It is a variation of Maurice, meaning "Moor" or "one from Mauritania." Historically, the term Moor evolved during the Middle Ages to describe a subset of Muslim followers living in North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula.