Crossword clues for maltese
maltese
- Famous falcon
- Blue-gray cat
- White toy dog
- White lap dog
- Type of cat or dog
- Small white toy
- Silky-coated dog breed
- Semitic language written with the Roman alphabet
- Pedigreed cat
- Member of the toy group
- Living toy
- Like a famous falcon
- Like a famed film falcon
- Like a falcon of fiction
- Language heard in Valletta
- Knightly order's kind of cross
- Hammett's "The ___ Falcon"
- Hammett's "The __ Falcon"
- Hammett falcon
- Furry white toy
- From Valletta
- Falcon or cross
- Cat or cross
- Bluish cat
- Blue- or gray-furred cat
- “The ___ Falcon.”
- 'The -- Falcon'
- Eight-pointed figure
- Bluish-gray cat
- Mediterranean language
- Dog or cat breed
- Lap dog
- Toy dog breed
- "The ___ Falcon"
- Only Semitic language that's an official language of the European Union
- Breed of cat or dog
- Language in which "thank you" is "grazzi"
- Breed of toy dogs having a long straight silky white coat
- Kind of cat or dog
- Kind of cat, dog, or cross
- Like Bogart's falcon
- Type of cross or cat
- Certain cat or dog
- Cat variety
- Kind of cat or cross
- Natives of Valletta
- From Valletta, perhaps
- Kind of cross
- Like a film falcon
- Someone from Valletta?
- Cat breed
- Toy dog
- Like Hammett's falcon
- Breed of cat
- Hammett's falcon
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Maltese dog \Maltese dog\ n. (Zool.) A breed of toy dog having a long straight silky white coat; also called a Maltese.
Maltese \Mal*tese"\, a. Of or pertaining to Malta or to its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or inhabitant of Malta; the people of Malta.
Maltese cross. See Illust. 5, of Cross.
Maltese dog (Zo["o]l.), a breed of small terriers, having long silky white hair. The breed originated in Malta.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
from Malta + -ese. Maltese cat is attested from 1830; Maltese cross is from 1754 (earlier Malta cross, 1650s).
WordNet
Wikipedia
Maltese may refer to:
The Maltese , Canis familiaris Maelitacus, is a small breed of dog in the Toy Group. It descends from dogs originating in the Central Mediterranean Area. The breed name and origins are generally understood to derive from the Mediterranean island nation of Malta.
Maltese is an Italian surname, meaning literally "Maltese" or "from Malta". Notable people with the surname include:
- Dario Maltese (born 1992) Italian footballer
- Francesco Maltese, Italian Baroque-era painter
- Michael Maltese, American writer, actor, soundtrack composer
- Serphin Maltese, American politician
Category:Italian-language surnames Category:Italian people of Maltese descent
Usage examples of "maltese".
Maltese Bransle that kept parting them and then suddenly jolting them back together.
Most would like to emigrate, after hearing glowing reports from the Maltese Labour Carps and other crews from abroad of higher pay outside Malta.
He was a chap they called Maltese Sam and he used to be cook on Corunna Downs.
It was also a kind of testicle-protector, for there were some dirty fighters among the Maltese and Cypriot commis waiters.
It was a fifty-three-foot Magnum Maltese Flybridge cruiser, built in North Miami Beach.
Napoli, amid burly Inglesi, straight-nosed Greeks, swarthy Sicilians, and Maltese with spirits as fine as the gold of their own chains.
A Cross like a Teutonic or Maltese one, formed by four curved lines within a circle, is also common on the Monuments, and represented the Tropics and the Colures.
Cross like Teutonic or Maltese represented the Tropics and Colures, 502-l.
A few officers, who had been dining with the various generals who had their headquarters there, or with friends on board ship, were the sole people in the streets, although from some of the closed windows of the drinking-shops in the Greek quarter came sounds of singing and noise, for every one was earning high wages, and the place was full of Maltese, Alexandrians, Smyrniotes, and, indeed, the riff-raff of all the Mediterranean cities, who had flocked to the scene of action to make money as petty traders, hucksters, camp-followers, mule-drivers, or commissariat-laborers.
The Queen, a sleek maltese, opened her eyes languidly as they approached, but at sight of Mombi she sprang up so impulsively, she bumped her head on a catsup bottle.
The design borrowed elements from the Maltese and Celtic crosses, combining them in a distinctive angular style in some ways suggestive of Navajo sand-pictures.
The Admiral stirred his tea, contemplated, and said, 'If Napoleon Bonaparte with his three hundred thousand very well trained men and his usual brilliant cavalry and artillery, can knock out say the Russians or part of the Austrians, the French navy may sweep us out of the Mediterranean again, above all as the Maltese and the Moroccans are so ungrateful as to hate us and as there is a real possibility of a French alliance with Tunis, Algeria and the other piratical states, to say nothing of the Emperor of Morocco and even the Sultan himself.
The poodle is extinct, the Maltese terrier, the Pomeranian, the Italian greyhound, and, it is believed, great numbers of crosses and mongrels have utterly disappeared.
Maltese had brought from another tree in Loudonville, on one of the highest branches.
Far graver was the real difference between this muster and the last, no less than eleven men having been taken to hospital, four with Malta fever, four with the great pox, two with limbs broken in drunken falls, and one pierced with a Maltese knife, while a twelfth was in prison, waiting trial for a rape.