The Collaborative International Dictionary
Asturian \As*tu"ri*an\, a. Of or pertaining to Asturias in Spain. -- n. A native of Asturias.
Wikipedia
Asturian may refer to:
- Something of, from, or related to Asturias, in Northern Spain
- Asturian cuisine
- Asturian language
- Asturian people
- Asturcón, also known as an Asturian pony
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Usage examples of "asturian".
There were a dozen or so mangonels em placed just beyond the range of Asturian arrows as I flew back to the city, and they were already hurling huge rocks at the walls.
I spent a month or so in the temple of Chaldan in Vo Wacune, and then I hiked to Vo Astur to see what the Asturians were up to--no good, as it turned out, but this was Arendia, after all.
She went to Vo Astur and spoke with the Asturian duke in much the same way as she had with the duke of Vo Wacune.
Polgara or I grieved very much when, in 3822, Vo Astur was destroyed and the Asturians were chased back into the forest.
Although the Asturian cities and towns had been destroyed, the Asturian nobility and yeomanry remained intact--although greatly diminished.
It took Pol and me more than a week to locate the encampment of the Asturian duke and his green-clad archers.
I hesitate to use the word, but it was only by chance that we finally found the Asturian encampment.
There were other things slowing him down, as well--little things like the Algars, the Drasnians, the Ulgos, and the Asturian bowmen.
Angarak atrocities, their archery improved to the point that no place in the horde was truly safe from Asturian arrows, and Kal Torak of Mallorea took horrid casualties as he marched west toward Vo Mimbre.
Moreover, since he is Asturian, it is well within the realm of possibility that he hath concluded some secret accord with Kal Torak to betray us at a crucial moment during the battle.
It just so happened that the commander of the Asturian archers Pol brought down onto the eastern side of the plain of Mimbre was a fiery young nobleman, the Baron of Wildantor, and the knight who led my Mimbrate bridge-wreckers was the Baron of Vo Mandor.
The Asturian arrows arched overhead like a slithering rainbow, and the Murgos quite literally melted off their half-completed bridges to fill the river with floating corpses.
It was at that point that the Baron of Wildantor gave the shrieking Murgos a pointed demonstration of the incredible range of the Asturian longbow.
The red-haired Asturian was being carried down-river at a ferocious speed, but he angled across the current and reached up his arm as he was swept past the splintered end of the ruined bridge.
The hands of the two men came together with a resounding smack, and the Mimbrate leaned back, literally jerking the Asturian up out of the current.