Basque

How To Use Basque In A Sentence

• Bilbao is firmly anchored in Basque culture, with its emphasis on literature and the culinary arts. Times, Sunday Times
• We finally got the basque back and delivered it to the bride-to-be's room.
• 25% of Spanish tourists who visited Morocco in 2013 are Catalonians, 19% are from Madrid, 12% from Andalusia, and 7% from the Basque Country.
• The biggest holiday among Basques is the feast of their patron saint, Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order.
• Here was worn the "barret," of scarlet or white, the rich brown jacket and red sash of the peculiar costumes of the Basque and Bearnais peasants -- a fine race of men, and one, too, historically noble. Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt
• Ramuntcho is a Basque smuggler and player of pelota, the Basque national game, and the story concerns his adventures and those of his fiancée, Gracieuse.
• The shots of her grinning like a lunatic on the beach, or posed in stockings and basque, were not enough.
• Mr. Fischer depicts Champlain as a wise gleaner of facts who listened to Basque whalers, Breton fishermen, African slaves -- anyone who could impart information. A Forgotten Explorateur
• Basque cross, or "lauburu," * a symbol of prosperity, is to the Basque what the fleur-de-lys is to France, and though you won't find as many French streets "fleurdelisé," * when in Basque country you will see the cross-shaped lauburu partout! French Word-A-Day:
• The tale of the Basque hotelkeeper Lyda Esain captures graphically the challenges and drudgery of owning and operating such an enterprise.