How To Use Basque In A Sentence
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Bilbao is firmly anchored in Basque culture, with its emphasis on literature and the culinary arts.
Times, Sunday Times
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We finally got the basque back and delivered it to the bride-to-be's room.
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25% of Spanish tourists who visited Morocco in 2013 are Catalonians, 19% are from Madrid, 12% from Andalusia, and 7% from the Basque Country.
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The biggest holiday among Basques is the feast of their patron saint, Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order.
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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
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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.
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The shots of her grinning like a lunatic on the beach, or posed in stockings and basque, were not enough.
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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
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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!
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The tale of the Basque hotelkeeper Lyda Esain captures graphically the challenges and drudgery of owning and operating such an enterprise.
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The encore - Le Basque - by Marin Marais, arranged for horn and piano is an absolute charmer.
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Argentina claimed the first gold in Basque pelota when Facundo Andreasen and Sergio Villegas won the men's rubber paleta event.
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The Basqueness that is in abeyance in Biarritz returns in full as you drive south from there towards the frontier.
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Even sitting at home, she's in an extravagant outfit of stockings, suspenders, basque, feather boa, everything.
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In recent years, Basques in both Spain and France have promoted - with some success - the use of their traditional language.
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Then the next day I went to Vitoria, administrative capital of the Basque region.
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Basque handball is similar to the popular game of jai alai except that the bare hand rather than a jai alai cesta, or basket, is used to hit the ball.
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Born in Oviedo, the capital of the Asturias region, and also part Basque, Ms. Urquiola has designed the sets for a new interpretation of the Monteverdi opera, "The Coronation of Poppea.
Design With a Poetical Touch
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The Basque language, also known as Euskera, is Europe's oldest living language.
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Traditional Basque folk poets improvise and sing rhymes on any subject.
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During the period of Spanish colonization, Basques from Spain had often taken administrative posts overseas.
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Spain's Interior Ministry said in a statement Tuesday that police had led a number of pre-dawn raids in the Basque country and the regions of Navarra, Cantabria and Valencia.
Spain Arrests 9 Suspected ETA Separatists
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French cheese flight at Fiddlehead Cafe A nutty, sheeps-milk Ossau-Iraty from the Basque region; a rich, creamy Edel de Cleron by Perrin Vermot; and a devastating co-op-produced bleu d'Auvergne that combined a sweet creaminess with some powerfully earthy, moldy scunge.
Chicago Reader
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Basque immigrants began building pelota courts soon after they arrived in the United States, and their love of the sport is considered an important factor in unifying the American Basque community.
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What has the widely admired Basque artist done to deserve such treatment?
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I recall one small urchin without a rag of clothing save the basque waist of a lady's dress, bristling with whalebones, and worn wrong side before, beneath which his smooth ebony legs emerged like those of an ostrich from its plumage.
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We had for-real cowboys, Basque sheepherders, hardrock miners, Shoshoni and Paiute Indians, wild-game hunters from all over the world, various and sundry railroad workers, and tourists passing through on U.S. 40, the main highway bisecting the nation at that time.
Beard
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She was referring to the picture of myself dressed in a basque, stockings, suspenders and a thong that circulated on everybody's mobile phone.
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They include reducing ministries and scrapping pork - barrel deals agreed with Basque nationalists.
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The story of the fiesta is surrounded by religion, legend and the fiery Basque spirit.
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As far as Basques who are not too fussed about their food are concerned, using a recipe book is cheating.
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Basque town, you'll find a tall "fronton"* wall, in stacked stone or concrete, against which the locals still play ball, or "pilota,"* with their hands or with oblong baskets.
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Our revelation will leave the basque-wearing drama teacher red-faced.
The Sun
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The restaurants operate in harmony with certain south-western festivals such as the Espelette Festival in October, when lots of Basque songs are featured.
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He actually went to the Basque Country to study music and ended up living with a master accordion player who helped him perfect his style.
Basque Musical Traditions Updated in Idaho
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My other brother was playing cesta punta, he was a pelotari [ Basque handball player ].
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The basque and tablier of this dress were of royal blue plush and the draped demi-train was of moiré of the same tint.
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In the 1990s, Mr. Mendiz á bal was strongly drawn to the growing punk scene in the Basque Country — he still counts The Clash as an inspiration — and as a teenager went through something of a left-wing political phase.
A Basque Sculptor in Madrid
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Whatever their mother tongue: Spanish, Hindi, Finnish, Basque, Walpiri, Quechua, babies acquire it long before they learn to read and write.
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These Romance languages supplanted earlier tribal ones which, except for Basque, have not survived.
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Young Basque men emigrated because no patrimony could by custom be divided, leaving younger sons to fend for themselves.
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Yes, there are still bitter-ender Basque, IRA, and Maoist terrorists at work; the PLO's nihilistic progeny still attack Israel when not attacking each other; Russia is still a destabilizing power.
"We're not winning, we're not losing."
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The Basque language is extremely difficult and complex.
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But just as the finishing line came into view, the Basque boys began to falter, and the arrogant aristos of Madrid brought their skills to bear.
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The Basque Gabriel's Message (again in an arrangement by Harvey) is properly festive with flourishes in the trumpets to accompany the Annunciation.
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Just how ridiculous do we look with a basque over our jeans?
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Maybe I will try to do some good results at Paris-Nice and Basque Country and of course the classics.
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A Shot Across the Bow
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If you are blessed with a curvy, hourglass figure, then a corset or basque will certainly make the most of your assets.
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Basque culture underwent a revival in the late 19th century, which ensured its continuance into the 20th century.
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Their married women wear on their heades, fine wickre Basquettes of a foote and a haulf long: rounde, and flatte on the toppe like a barrelle.
The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
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If you are blessed with a curvy, hourglass figure, then a corset or basque will certainly make the most of your assets.
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The graveyard especially is a good place to examine the strange and beautiful gravestones characteristic of old Basque burial grounds.
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The massive emigration of Basques to Latin America, brought about by the famines of the 18th century, created a labour shortage.
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This, incidentally, is an international bank headquartered (or at least once headquartered) in the Basque industrial city of Bilbao, Spain.
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Or find a "fronton," which often serves as a local meeting point, to watch locals play a pickup game of "pelote basque," a cross between tennis and baseball (Plaza Berri).
Biarritz
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We are entering the Basque region which encompasses a small area of both Northern Spain and Southern France.
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She was referring to the picture of me dressed in a basque, stockings, suspenders and a thong that had been circulating on everybody's mobile phone.
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My favorite long-standing Basque tradition is the love for their lyrical language, which, unlike Provençal, can still be heard on the street and in squares and shops.
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They have been joined by three other Spanish groups, the Basques, Galicians and Valencians who also want their languages officially recognised.
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Argentina also won a medal on Day 12 of the Pan Americans Games, claiming the first gold in Basque pelota when Facundo Andreasen and Sergio Villegas won the men's rubber paleta event.
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The traditional Basque decorative arts consist primarily of woodcarving and engraving on stone.
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The prospect of a settlement in the Basque country looks the best in a generation.
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With its wide bolling and outstretched boughs, it is what the Basques would call a trasmocho tree.
Wildwood
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We passed what looked like three-sided open-air squash courts - frontons, he said, built by Basque settlers who wanted to play pelota in their new home.
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The main difference is that the inscriptions on blazes in pine trees in Scandinavia have a longer duration than the inscriptions on the bark of deciduous trees by the Basque herders.
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Pablo insists that he is Basque, not Spanish - an important distinction.
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There are at least 12 naturist beaches in the Basque region, and many more all over the Spanish coast.
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I've known the word titchy since early childhood but had never thought about its origin until, on a recent trip to the Basque country, I became aware that there is a Basque word titxia pronounced "titchia", meaning small.
Languagehat.com: TITCHY.
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The boat turned out to be a chalupa from the 1500s, built and used by Basque whalers.
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In the meantime, I will be taking my new black and pink see-thru basque with me.
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At a recent Basque Country wine tasting, I had the opportunity to not only taste local wines but outstanding food from the region.
Thei Zervaki: The Outstanding Food of the Basque
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The key element in the Basque Country was its autonomous government.
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No, first he went to Miami, Florida, because he played cesta punta [ Basque ball game ] in Miami during his studies in the University over there.
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It consisted of a black satin basque, black stockings and a black-and-white striped tanga.
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
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Traditional Basque plays known as pastorales, which possibly related to medieval mystery plays, are still performed at festivals.
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It took as its theme the near destruction by German bombers of the small Basque town of Guernica.
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The restaurants operate in harmony with certain south-western festivals such as the Espelette Festival in October, when lots of Basque songs are featured.
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Basque Country. Walkers fall head-over-heels for the Pyrenean vistas where huge vultures soar on the thermals, art fans love the futuristic fantasy of Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum (pictured).
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Hurd's program enables speakers of 59 different languages -- including Assamese (India), Basque (Spain), Igbo (Nigeria), and Inuktitut (Canada) -- to use Microsoft's products.
Nataly Kelly: How Translation Is Changing the World
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This is a classic tapa from the Basque region of Spain, and is also very popular in nearby Galicia, where apple growing and hard cider (sidra) have been traditions for centuries.
Kurt Michael Friese: The Hard Truth of Johnny Appleseed, and a Recipe with Hard Cider
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Shot in locations ranging from Chelsea to Paris, Vienna to the Basque country, Welles proved a sharp but humble interviewer and boldly experimented with over-the-shoulder shots and "noddies" (response shots recorded separately from an interview then interwoven with the subject's answers), as well as location shooting, synchronised sound recording and handheld crime recreations.
The Guardian World News
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But the majority prefer to speak Basque because it's easier for them.
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In the production, at the theatre, she appeared briefly in stockings and a basque, in which she was pictured for publicity shots.
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Modern Basque historiography blames the monarchy of Navarre for failing to integrate the particularities of the local legal system.
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While some hawk leather bags, cars, or rackets, Rafael Nadal kicked off his sponsor appreciation week by hosting a mocktail party with Bacardi USA president Robert Furniss-Roe at Bar Basque.
Swapping Tennis Balls for Highballs
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As far as Basques who are not too fussed about their food are concerned, using a recipe book is cheating.
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Basque Country. Walkers fall head-over-heels for the Pyrenean vistas where huge vultures soar on the thermals, art fans love the futuristic fantasy of Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum .
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Sit at one of the long wooden tables and choose from dishes with typical Basque ingredients such as cod and sheep's cheese, washed down with a choice of cider: fruity from the French side of the border, drier from Spain.
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In most cases, the first 2nd, 3rd or 4th letters of each Basque word were agglutinated into a new word.
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Where Medellin is thought to be Basque and Jewish, Bucaramanga is mostly of Spanish descent.
Michael Fairbanks: The Colombian Elections: Who Will Be the Next President of Macondo?
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The sports program of Basquet Cornella dates to 1929, and the booming facility in which it plays has an immaculate basketball gym, next to the huge tennis center in a country gone mad for sport.
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French and Spanish fishermen soon joined the Basques.
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The only solution was to move the interior customs to the coast so as to close the Spanish market to European products and open up a large protected home market to Basque industry.
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Basque has a free order of words, but something we linguists call neutral or canonical order exists, i.e. that which requires less effort from the brain", she explained.
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The Basque version of bouillabaisse, or fish stew, is called ttoro and includes mussels, crayfish, congers, the head of a codfish, and three other kinds of fish.
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'Wait here,' said the Basque, making for the group of fishermen.
AMAGANSETT
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It's an occasion as uniquely Ashleyian as pelota is Basque.
The Brimming Cup
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Shops all over the city have been ransacked for boots, basques, garters, stockings and suspenders and other distinctly racy garments by theatre-goers determined to join in the spirit of the gender-bending theatrical phenomenon.
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It is remarkable enough, that in the greater part of the derivatives from the Sanskrit the Basque has dropped the initial consonant, so that the word commences with a vowel.
The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula
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It consisted of a black satin basque, black stockings and a black-and-white striped tanga.
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
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But if you want weird you should have seen the group of ladies and gents all dressed in black, some wearing basques and other risqué clothing.
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The Statute of Autonomy fell short of the self-rule that Basque nationalism demanded.
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The Republican cause embraced - far from comfortably - conservative, Catholic Basque Nationalists.
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Try creative Basque cuisine before enjoying the views over the vineyards from the rooftop bar.
Times, Sunday Times
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She invented the new ball game "Newcomb," and she has also revised "Basket Ball," which she calls "Basquette.
A slaveholder's daughter,
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Basque immigrants tended to remain clannish at first, socializing with other Basques - often from the same villages in Europe - and patronizing Basque businesses.
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These languages include not only Dutch, German, and Scandinavian, Asian, and African languages, but less widely spoken languages such as Basque, Yiddish, and Greek.
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"She loves the customised T-shirts and the Kyri basques," says the shop owner, stepping up to the rail and removing an orange basque.
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Even now, she is probably parading round your living room in a rubber basque.
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These white Txokolina wines (that's "choko-leena") are summertime Basque seafood staples.
25 Delicious Summer Wines For Under $25 - The Consumerist
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That music has persuaded a huge range of actors and actresses to don basques and fishnets over the years.
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Basque town, you'll find a tall "fronton" * wall, in stacked stone or concrete, against which the locals still play ball, or "pilota," * with their hands or with oblong baskets.
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He later goes to the Basque country and is exposed to the living language.
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The rural sports are in decline as younger Basques show greater interest in football or the Basque game pelota, which is similar to squash.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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When the main army had safely traversed the passes, the rear was suddenly attacked by an overwhelming body of mountaineers, Gascons and Basques, who, resenting the violation of their mountain sanctuaries, and longing for plunder, drove the Frankish rearguard into a little valley (now marked by the chapel of Ibagneta and still called Roncesvalles), and there slew every man.
Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race
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We passed what looked like three-sided open-air squash courts - frontons, Fernando said, built by Basque settlers who wanted to play pelota in their new home.
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And I haven't even started on the basques, teddies or suspenders.
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Because Arab invaders did not vanquish the Basques, the Spanish Crown considered them hidalgos, or noblemen.
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I was at the charcuterie yesterday to buy a few slices of jambon de Bayonne, an air-dried cured ham from the French Basque country.
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The style is imitative of Basque architecture.
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The Basques and the Gascons annihilated them, and among the fallen was the Frankish commander Roland.
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ETA posits a land groaning under the yoke of imperial Spain - even though a territory called the Basque land probably never existed, and much of what they claim is in France.
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This is a classic tapa from the Basque region of Spain, and is also very popular in nearby
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The Basques are a distinct community with a unique language in what is today northern Spain and south west France.
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So a walking day was nearly always followed by a relaxing one watching another spectacular vista slip by as the trains took us across contrasting landscapes: mountainous Basque country, coastal Cantabria and green Galicia.
The train in Spain: a pilgrimage for softies
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And take a look at supportive underwear; there are briefs which help hold your tummy in, and if you're really keen, boned basques which squeeze you in.
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This class also includes units mainly engaged in providing clothing trade services such as hem stitching, basque knitting or buttonholing.
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The girl wore a see through black basque and back combed bleached hair.
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The chef has put the old Basque bistro well and truly on the map, with dishes including braised veal with vegetables and cod cooked in vinaigrette.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am American, born in the U.S. of hispanic heritage and Mexican by marriage. (yes, my soulmate is a beautiful Tabasqueña)
What brought you to live in Mexico
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The sports program of Basquet Cornella dates to 1929, and the booming facility in which it plays has an immaculate basketball gym, next to the huge tennis center in a country gone mad for sport.
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Other tabasqueña main dishes include estofado de gallina (a rich chicken stew), frijoles negros con carne salada (a black bean and pork dish), robalo a la tabasqueña (snook cooked with Tabascan seasonings) and pollo en chirmol (chicken in a pumpkin seed and chile sauce.)
The Cuisine of Tabasco: Heartland Of Pre-Hispanic Cooking
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The police have a lot of problems with people on holidays who do not know this peculiarity of the Basque coast.
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The fresh boudin basque is disgustingly, deliciously bloody while the bottles of pistachio syrup glow like absinthe.
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The Basques are a distinct community with a unique language in what is today northern Spain and south west France.
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It was an unspectacular, stable society, like the Basque Provinces enjoying a large degree of local autonomy.
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My three-day tour in the French Basque country was bedevilled by all sorts of trouble.
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The encore - Le Basque - by Marin Marais, arranged for horn and piano is an absolute charmer.
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The fight for the dissolution of repressive bodies and the release of political prisoners was forever linked with the demand for recognition of Basque sovereignty.
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Due to centuries of social struggle, Basques now live in relative autonomy.
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The Basque eyed him, judging the sincerity of the words, then he said,'She was a good person.
AMAGANSETT
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Even Rioja, already Spain's leading table wine at the turn of the 19th century, found few markets other than neighbouring Basque country and South America.
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He was pleased to notice Basque symbols on the awning outside, but when we looked at the menu, we quickly noticed cuisine was more regional French and Spanish, with slight inflections of traditional dishes.
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This word came from the Basque word esker, and perhaps more noticeably, from the unrecorded Basque derivative ezkerdo.
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The chef has put the old Basque bistro well and truly on the map, with dishes including braised veal with vegetables and cod cooked in vinaigrette.
Times, Sunday Times
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In regions like the Basque Country and Navarre, both in the north of Spain, ETA's cease-fire could have a much greater impact on the voting than in the rest of the country.
Araceli Guede: First Spanish General Election Without ETA's Terrorism
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Although you're dressed up in basque and suspenders, you've got this strength, it's as if nothing can destruct you.
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The distinctive Basque culture was recognized by the rulers of Castile until the nineteenth century, when the Basques ' privileges were removed by the Spanish court.
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259 `Remember when she came round in a black leather miniskirt, basque, black stockings and suspenders?
FALLEN WOMEN
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Bilbao is firmly anchored in Basque culture, with its emphasis on literature and the culinary arts.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although the Basque country is divided between France and Spain, the Basques have maintained an identity separate from both states.
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With eight colleagues, he has just completed a large reference grammar of Basque, to be published shortly.
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A Basque waistline, or any drop-waist style that angles downward, will lengthen a short torso.
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From that vessel he conducted a series of commando-style raids against the French along the Cantabrian coast of northeastern Spain, on the Bay of Biscay, near Basque country.
Archive 2009-03-01
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More famed for her fashion sense, which has included leopard print shoes, leather basques and all in one rubber bodysuits, than her policies, Theresa may benefit from being the only women in the leadership race.
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Gandarias is, first and foremost, a pintxo bar -- that's what they call tapas in Basque country -- with the best little appetizers you'll ever have: the freshest, most delicious local ingredients placed lovingly on a small slice of baguette, â ‚ ¬1.50 apiece. (â ‚ ¬2.25 for the cooked-to-order foie gras, which I highly recommend.)
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In homage, the chef at Bar Basque, Yuhi Fujinaga, led a team of visiting chefs from the Basque region of Spain to prepare a feast of jam ó n ib é rico, foie gras mousse in wine gel é e, strawberry gazpacho with lobster, Champagne croquetas, cheeses, and gin and tonic gel é es.
Feteing Ferran Adri
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Once a favorite pirate hangout this old fishing port in Aquitaine's Basque Country continues to charm with its tiny narrow, winding streets and picturesque harbor.
Karen Schaler: 20 Fabulous French Finds in Bordeaux and Basque Country
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The chef has put the old Basque bistro well and truly on the map, with dishes including braised veal with vegetables and cod cooked in vinaigrette.
Times, Sunday Times
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Basque and Béarnais were spoken in the extreme south, but the nasal Gascon accent of much of the south-west was recognizably the langue d' oil of northern France.
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A Shot Across the Bow
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My own children would play for hours on its vast fronton (court), theoretically for pelota but more often for impromptu football, or rollerskating, or teenage flirting or, at night, dances and fireworks or Basque games (shows of strength).
Classic France: the insiders' guide
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He points out that the town was garrisoned by two Basque battalions, and that it was a critical road junction for the twenty-three battalions holding the defensive line east of Bilbao, crucial to their successful retreat.
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Like other people throughout Spain, the Basques spend many leisure hours socializing with friends at tapas bars, which serve light food and drinks.
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Except that Mundy says none of this, neither does he indicate it by so much as a slip of the eye, because Sasha in the Wagnerian spirit of the place is wearing his invisibility hat, his Tarnkappe as they used to call it, the black Basque beret worn severely across the brow that warns against the slightest indiscretion, particularly in time of war.
Absolute Friends
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And take a look at supportive underwear; there are briefs which help hold your tummy in, and if you're really keen, boned basques which squeeze you in.
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One remarkable feature of the indigenous culture is that there are striking and inexplicable resemblances between the language and that of the Basques in Europe.
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The Basques' progress towards autonomy was sluggish.
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It is possible to listen to the music of many Basque composers, both contemporary and classical, and feel that the influence of the outside world has been paramount.
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The more bold have nervously asked for his view on the Basque separatist movement.
Times, Sunday Times
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Opera, ed. DUPIN, V (Antwerp, 1706); HELLOT, Nobles et vilains, le miracle de Basqueviue, d'apres les poesies inedites de Jean Petit
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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There will be demonstrations in roller hockey and pelota basque, but there's no place for cricket.
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Hake, red bream, tuna, Dover sole, and monkfish are the favourites, but anchovies, sardines and mackerel are also very much appreciated in the Basque Country.
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The traditional Basque decorative arts consist primarily of woodcarving and engraving on stone.
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Hispania derives from the Basque word espa馻, signifying an edge or boundary.
Flush: a biography
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No bioweapon aimed at the lactose intolerant need be feared by the Basques!
The Volokh Conspiracy » More Interesting DNA Information
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The sexy star wore a tight-fitting basque designed by top corset-maker.
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Parts of the Basque Country have also become heavily industrialized.
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He has no fetish for stiletto heels and stocking tops, and there are no women dressed only in basques.
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A female journalist for a Basque news website and a car driver stopped nearby were also held.
The Sun
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The truth is elusive and complex and Medem makes a concerted attempt to grasp it, while making plain his broad sympathies with the Basques.
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Basque beret for man or woman that is fully lined and sports a leather sweatband, and at a great price - cheaper than going all the way to France to pick one up.
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Over the past 5 years, Neiker-Tecnalia, in collaboration with the Fundación Kalitatea, apicultural associations in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, honey producing plants and Basque governmental bodies, has undertaken R+D projects associated with the beekeeping sector.
Health News from Medical News Today
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Beside this, an armchair was covered in a wild outgrowth of clothes: summer dresses; stockings; suspenders; a garter belt; an ornate white basque that she had worn for him one night.
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Etruscan was obviously not an Indo-European language and was unrelated to Basque.
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In these simple clubs, whose name in the ancient Basque language means ‘corner’, attendance is by invitation only.
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They sing and improvise in Euskera, the Basque language.
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Linguistically (and in some ways genetically, although there has been more mixing in this regard) the Basques are a complete outlier.
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Inside the theatre foyer, I was greeted by two young women dressed for the part - one in a French maid's outfit and the other in a basque.
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He had hired a crazy wig and wore a slinky black dress, black stockings and a basque.
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A town of southwest France near the Bay of Biscay and the Spanish border. French, Spanish, and Basque are all spoken here. Population, 41, 381.
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The Basques, Europe's oldest surviving group, are also the first identifiable people of the peninsula.
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Yet Basques were also respected as hard workers who were frugal with their money and conservative in their politics.
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Mr. Zapatero, who runs a minority government, got the package through with the sole votes of his Socialist party and abstention from a Basque nationalist party that he is wooing furiously for support on his next challenge, which is much bigger: passing a budget for 2011.
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Basque town, you'll find a tall "fronton" * wall, in stacked stone or concrete, against which the locals still play ball, or "pilota," * with their hands or with oblong baskets.
French Word-A-Day:
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It's known as chakchouka in Morocco and the Middle East, uovo diabolo in Italy, oeufs en cocotte in France, piperade in Basque, egg curry in India.
Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Cracking the Egg Label Code
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I used to live in Spain where the public use of Basque, gallego and catalan were outlawed.
Should Mexico Become Officially Bilingual?
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Basque Americans have been relatively slow to establish a literary tradition, in part because so much of their background was based on an oral culture.
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For centuries, bold Basque sailors have ventured out on the seas that crash on their homeland in the Bay of Biscay.
