Crossword clues for castilian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Castilian \Cas*til"ian\, n. [Sp. castellano, from Castila, NL. Castilia, Castella. Castile, which received its name from the castles erected on the frontiers as a barrier against the Moors.]
An inhabitant or native of Castile, in Spain.
The Spanish language as spoken in Castile.
Wikipedia
Castilian (sometimes spelled Castillian) usually refers to something of, from, or related to Castile, including:
- Castilian people, an ethnic group from Castile
- Spanish language, or Castilian language, a Romance language that originated in Castile
- Crown of Castile, a former state on the Iberian Peninsula
- Kingdom of Castile, a former kingdom on the Iberian Peninsula
- Castile and León, an autonomous community of Spain
- Castile–La Mancha, an autonomous community of Spain
- Castilian Spanish, a variety of the Spanish language
Castilian may also refer to:
- SS Castilian, a British ship
- The Castilian, a 1963 film
Usage examples of "castilian".
The scion of a pure Castilian clan he preferred not to name, the young rebel leader would have had no trouble passing as a dapper Anglo in a different outfit.
He had raised an armed band, consisting of some Aragonese gentlemen and their servants, and with this he fell like a thunderbolt upon the Castilian men-at-arms and the familiars of the Inquisition.
Castilian descent, who had driven to the ceremony in shiny American limousines, to stocky brown Aymaran Indians from far back in the Andes mountains, who probably had come to town driving a string of llamas.
Dominic assembled his friars at Notre Dame de la Prouille, they were found to be sixteen in number, and among them Castilians, Navarese, Normans, French, Languedocians, and even English and Germans.
English-Welsh-Norman-Breton-Angevin host marched toward Edinburgh, ships were landing parties of crusaders along the east coastdescendants of Vikings from the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway, Goths from Sweden, Frisians and Flemings, Burgundians, French, Leonese, Portuguese, Granadans, fighting men representing most of the small states that made up the Holy Roman Empire, a few Switzers, some Italians of various kinds, Castilians, Navarrese, Moors, and even a few scarred, black-skinned noble knights of the Kingdom of Ghana.
Vikings from the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway, Goths from Sweden, Frisians and Flemings, Burgundians, French, Leonese, Portuguese, Granadans, fighting men representing most of the small states that made up the Holy Roman Empire, a few Switzers, some Italians of various kinds, Castilians, Navarrese, Moors, and even a few scarred, black-skinned noble knights of the Kingdom of Ghana.
The Castilians, the Navarrese, and the Aragonese all rose against them, and everywhere they had to force a passage with their swords.
In all things the Pampangans have a nobleness of mind that makes them the Castilians of these same Indians.
A Castilian should not lower himself, they say, by attending on a Gavacho, by which name the Spaniards know the French, and, indeed, all foreigners.
Castilians, and many of them will return crowned with laurels, to be recrowned by us with myrtles.
She led the way into the dining-room, where the Castilian Amoroso bottle and the medicine glass were standIng on the table all ready.
I am glad we got the Castilian Amoroso, because it did really cheer Father up, and you cannot always do that, however hard you try, even if you make jokes, or give him a comic paper.
Hundreds of yards and hundreds of passengers away, Gwyn Barry, practically horizontal on his crimson barge, shod in prestige stockings and celebrity slippers, assenting with a smile to the coaxing refills of Alpine creekwater and sanguinary burgundy with which his various young hostesses strove to enhance his caviar tartlet, his smoked-salmon pinwheel and asparagus barquette, his prime fillet tournedos served on a timbale of tomato and a tapenade of Castilian olivesGwyn was in First.
The officer who relieved my cross-grained Castilian on the following day seemed of a different nature altogether.
I Fall Ill--I am Cared for By an Unknown Lady-- The Marquis d'Argens--Cagliostro My room was only separated from his Castilian eminence's by a light partition, and I could hear him quite plainly reprimanding his chief servant for being too economical.