Guernica
[gwair-ni-kuh; Spanish ger-nee-kah]
- 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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Contemporary Examples
Late in the afternoon of April 26, 1937 waves of bombers obliterated the ancient capital of Basque Spain, Guernica.
Life Under Air Strikes: Children Under Fire Will Never Forget — or ForgiveClive Irving
August 3, 2014
Now those are destroyed, too, and the animals are strewn about, bloating and stinking, as if in a tableau of “Guernica.”
Anyway, Orner first published some of them as “Five Shards,” in the online magazine Guernica.
Historical Examples
For ourselves, we turned our faces toward the centre of Vizcayan glory, the famous Tree of Guernica.
Spanish Highways and BywaysKatharine Lee Bates
Guernica
- 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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