Saracen
noun
a member of any of the nomadic tribes on the Syrian borders of the Roman Empire.
Saracenic
-
a word derived from
Saracen.
Example Sentences
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On the second floor was an Assyrian throne room, a Saracenic Hall and an auditorium for lectures.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 2021
Another house, for the 15th, at Amity and Emmett, no longer stands but was described as Moorish, Ingram having taken the general Norman formula and added Saracenic details.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2011
He was knighted by the Emperor of Austria, awarded high Saracenic orders by the Bey of Tunis.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was called “de Pagani,” from a Saracenic colony of Frederick II., who was sometimes contemptuously called the Sultan of Nocera.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
The square tower of the Saracenic Giralda—grand relic of the past when the Moors bore sway in Andalusia, but now used as belfry to the Cathedral—glowed rosy red in the beams.
From The Spanish Cavalier A Story of Seville by A. L. O. E.
