Guernica

[gwair-ni-kuh; Spanish ger-nee-kah]

noun

Basque town in northern Spain: bombed and destroyed in 1937 by German planes helping the insurgents in the Spanish Civil War.

(italics) a painting (1937) by Pablo Picasso.

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Examples from the Web for guernica

Late in the afternoon of April 26, 1937 waves of bombers obliterated the ancient capital of Basque Spain, Guernica.
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Now those are destroyed, too, and the animals are strewn about, bloating and stinking, as if in a tableau of “Guernica.”
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Anyway, Orner first published some of them as “Five Shards,” in the online magazine Guernica.
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For ourselves, we turned our faces toward the centre of Vizcayan glory, the famous Tree of Guernica.
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British Dictionary definitions for guernica

Guernica

noun

a town in N Spain: formerly the seat of a Basque parliament; destroyed in 1937 by German bombers during the Spanish Civil War, an event depicted in one of Picasso's most famous paintings. Pop: 15 454 (2003 est)Basque name: Gernika

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