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

Finally the rose-colored tide rolled across the plains of Old Castile.

From Time Magazine Archive

The generals seized power in Old Castile and Navarre, in the north, and in much of Andalusia, in the south.

From Time Magazine Archive

The news drew Escudero aficionados from as far as Madrid, who drove over the snow-filled mountain pass to the onetime capital of Old Castile to watch him once more.

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And one day he announces grandly: "In Old Castile I own a pigeon cote which if it were not in ruins would hold 200 pigeons if I had pigeons."

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He inherited wide estates both in Galicia and in Old Castile.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various