Old Castile

American  

[ka-steel] / kæˈstil /

noun

1. a region in N Spain: formerly a province.

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Old Castile British  

noun

1. Spanish name: Castilla la Vieja.  a region of N Spain, on the Bay of Biscay: formerly a province

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Example Sentences

Born at Calaruega, in Old Castile, in 1170, of a stock which his brethren love to connect with the royal house, his saintliness was so penetrating that it reflected back upon his mother, who is reverenced as St. Juana de Aga, and at one time there was danger that even his father might be drawn into the saintly circle.

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New England is a very different sort of place from Old Castile.

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I saw, in imagination, the uplands of Old Castile, as I had often heard them described, hot in summer and bleak in winter.

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Beyond Miranda, the first town of old Castile, the desolate scene appeared in its full awfulness.

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The modern Province of Santander is the renowned Monta�a, the mountain lair which nourished the chivalry of Old Castile, and from which they made wild sallies to the south, troop after troop, generation after generation, until the Moorish standards were beaten back from the plains about Toledo to 377 the Sierras of Andalusia.

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