mirador
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of mirador
1660–70; < Spanish < Catalan, equivalent to mira ( r ) to look at (< Latin mīrārī to wonder at) + -dor agent suffix (< Latin -tor -tor )
Example Sentences
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A mirador more than 100 feet up in the steeple offers some of the best views of San Andres.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 4, 2022
I gave up and pulled off the highway into a mirador – or a scenic lookout.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2010
Lyautey and spoke a few words through the interpretess one felt that at last a painted window of the mirador had been broken, and a thought let into the vacuum of the harem.
From In Morocco by Wharton, Edith
In the mirador, with opera-glasses to their eyes, they had been scanning the roads which led south and south-west from the city.
From The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Reid, Mayne
A picturesque little mirador or lookout at the corner of Calle Plateros and Bodegones, opposite the Hotel Maury, with balconies ad lib.
From Our Artist in Cuba, Peru, Spain and Algiers Leaves from The Sketch-Book of a Traveller, 1864-1868 by Carleton, George W.
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