Majorcan
Americanadjective
noun
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Majorcans
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As a marker of Mali’s enduring fame in the fourteenth century, the Majorcan mapmaker Abraham Cresques featured it in The Catalan Atlas in 1375.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
But if you invest enough time in “Love Island,” you will feel your disdain evaporate like a spray tan in the Majorcan sun.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
Program B offers Nacho Duato’s earthy “Jardí Tancat,” with songs by Majorcan vocalist María del Mar Bonet, as well as Moultrie’s work and a new dance by Baltimore native Jermaine Maurice Spivey.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2022
"On the Majorcan side, quite clearly, there had been an accident only five weeks previously," he said.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2021
Then and then only does the aristocratic Majorcan maiden permit her graceful shoulders to be seen.
From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Mary Stuart Boyd
Like thousands of Majorcans, Sonia is protesting this weekend against the surge in tourism that is being blamed for plummeting living standards among the local population.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2024
The Majorcans are fond of claiming their island as the birthplace of Hannibal.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 by Various
The pilots of Genoa and Venice, the hardy Majorcans and the adventurous Moors, were followers of almost equal temerity.
From Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers by George Iles
When roused to their utmost effort there is no lassitude about these sturdy Majorcans.
From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Mary Stuart Boyd
She considered that the Majorcans had been brutalized and fanaticized, thanks to their influence.
From George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings by Alys Hallard
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