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n. (plural of basque English)
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The Basques (; ; , English: or ) are an indigenous ethnic group characterized by the Basque language, a common Basque culture and shared ancestry to the ancient Vascones and Aquitanians. Basques are indigenous to and primarily inhabit an area traditionally known as the Basque Country , a region that is located around the western end of the Pyrenees on the coast of the Bay of Biscay and straddles parts of north-central Spain and south-western France.
The Basques are known as:
- Euskaldunak in Basque (this ethnonym means "the speakers of the Basque language"; to refer to all the inhabitants of the Basque Country, the name euskal herritarrak is preferred)
- Vasco in Spanish
- Basque in French and English.
- Basco in Gascon and Portuguese.
Usage examples of "basques".
Hel and his mountaineer companions had known that conditions were developing toward a whiteout because, like all Basques from Haute Soule, they were constantly if subliminally attuned to the weather patterns that could be read in the eloquent Basque sky as the dominant winds circled in their ancient and regular boxing of the compass.
Gades is the Cadiz of today, and the dominion of Gadeirus embraced the land of the Iberians or Basques, their chief city taking its name from a king of Atlantis, and they themselves being Atlanteans.
Italians, Spaniards, and Portuguese, while the Basques are represented as of a still darker hue.
The copper mines of the Basques were extensively worked at a very early age of the world, either by the people of Atlantis or by the Basques themselves, a colony from Atlantis.
The Basques are much attached to dancing, and are very fond of the music of the bagpipe.
Of all Europeans, we must provisionally hold the Basques to be the oldest inhabitants of our quarter of the world.
Madrid dangled the carrot of freedom and independence to the communities who fought on her side, the Basques and Catalans jumped in with both feet--after they got a signed declaration of their independence.
The best fighters in the country, perhaps the world--the Basques and Catalans--nearly defeated him several times.
The Basques formed the ETA--Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, the Basque Freedom Party--and began trying to shoot their way out.
As many as eighty Basques died in a dirty war of kidnappings, torture, bombings and murder, all masterminded by their own government.
Great Seal of the Basques, rocked to his feet in astonishment, his expression changing from fear to outrage.
The energetic Basques walked fast, talked fast, and in two languages--Spanish and their own Euskera.
Maggie tried to placate him by saying that the ETA Basques were all the way over on the other side of Spain.
Unlike his own Panama, Spain was a country divided, split into Galicians, Catalans, Asturians, Navaronnes, Basques, and a dozen others, seventeen separate provinces in all, each with limited independence granted by Spain.
If you send death squads after Basques, Spaniards will throw you out at the polls, not the Basques.