Aragonese
Americanadjective
noun
plural
Aragonese-
a native or inhabitant of Aragon.
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the dialect of Spanish spoken in Aragon.
noun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of Aragonese
Example Sentences
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A community of Arabs from the Muslim Emirate of Sicily landed in the eleventh century and dug in so deep that waves of Christian conquest—Norman, Swabian, Aragonese, Spanish, Sicilian, French, and British—couldn’t efface them.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 27, 2018
As Anne Parmly Toxey points out in her comprehensive 2011 study, “Materan Contradictions,” Greeks, Romans, Longobards, Byzantines, Saracens, Swabians, Angevins, Aragonese, and Bourbons all passed through the town.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 20, 2015
After subsequent periods under the Normans and the Aragonese, the islands were gifted to a band of knights called the Sovereign Military Order of St. John of Jerusalem by Charles V in 1530.
From US News • Mar. 17, 2015
There is a squat 15th-century Aragonese castle and a couple of handsome churches.
From Slate • Feb. 18, 2012
Her husband, an Aragonese merchant by whom she had two children, spent half the value of his store on medicines and pastimes in an attempt to alleviate her terror.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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