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The part of a waistcoat etc. extending below the waist.
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A woman's close-fitting bodice, underbodice, or corset having such a feature.
Examples of basque in a Sentence
He gradually obtained full possession of Navarre and the Basque provinces, outside of the fortresses, which he had not the means to besiege.
Though the three Basque Provinces were thus united to the crown of Spain, they still remained a land apart (tierra apartada).
In appearance Xavier was neither Spanish nor Basque.
The principal evidence which Humboldt adduced in its support was the possibility of explaining a vast number of the ancient topographical names of Spain, and of other asserted Iberian districts, by the forms and significations of Basque.
Of the Provinces, Guipuzcoa is the only one which is wholly Basque, Alava is the least so.
In agriculture the Basque Provinces and the Pays Basque were great cider countries, but during the 19th century this was gradually replaced by wine-growing.
The chief industries of the Basque Provinces are the sea fisheries and iron mining.
On his return to Spain in 1892 he was appointed to the command first of the 6th Army Corps in the Basque Provinces and Navarre, where he soon quelled agitations, and then as captain-general at Barcelona, where he remained until January 1896.
In consequence, however, of the Carlist rising of 1873-1876, the Basque fueros were finally extinguished in 1876.
His collection of over five hundred Basque proverbs, Atsotizac edo Refravac, included in a volume of his poems O Ce " Gastaroa Nevrthizetan, printed in Paris in 1657, was supplemented by a second collection, Atsotizen Vrrhenquina.
The peak of the Rhune, to the south of St Jean de Luz, rises only to 2950 ft.; and on the border of the Basque country the mean height of the summits is not much greater.
The Nive, a beautiful river of the Basque country, takes its rise in Spain; after flowing past St Jean-Pied-de-Port, formerly capital of French Navarre and fortified by Vauban to guard the pass of Roncevaux, it joins the Adour at Bayonne.
Among these additions that on the Basque language is the longest and most important, Basque having for some time specially attracted his attention.
In fact, Wilhelm von Humboldt may be said to have been the first who brought Basque before the notice of European philologists, and made a scientific study of it possible.
In order to gain a practical knowledge of the language and complete his investigations into it, he visited the Basque country itself, the result of his visit being the valuable "Researches into the Early Inhabitants of Spain by the help of the Basque language" (Priifung der Untersuchungen fiber die Urbewohner Hispaniens vermittelst der vaskischen Sprache), published in 1821.
In this work he endeavoured to show, by an examination of geographical names, that a race or races speaking dialects allied to modern Basque once extended through the whole of Spain, the southern coast of France and the Balearic Islands, and suggested that these people, whom he identified with the Iberians of classical writers, had come from northern Africa, where the name of Berber still perhaps perpetuates their old designation.
When the kingdom was at its height it included all the modern province of the name; the northern slope of the western Pyrenees called by the Spaniards the "Ultra-puertos" or country beyond the passes, and now known as French Navarre; the Basque provinces; the Bureba, the valley between the Basque Mountains and the Montes de Oca to the north of Burgos; the Rioja and Tarazona in the upper valley of the Ebro.
In other parts, as in the Basque country, in Galicia, in the Serrania de Cuenca (between the headwaters of the Tagus and those of the Jiicar), in the Sierra de Albarracin (between the headwaters of the Tagus and those of the Guadalaviar), there are extensive tracts of undulating forest-clad hill country, and almost contiguous to these there are apparently boundless plains, or tracts of level table-land, some almost uninhabitable, and some streaked with irrigation canals and richly cultivatedlike the Rcquena of Valencia.
In the Basque Provinces and in Galicia the cultivable area is quite as fully utilized, but in these the difficulties are not so great.
In these last, however, the prevailing frtut-trees are those of central Europe, and above all the apple, which is very extensively cultivated in Asturias, the Basque Provinces and Navarre.
Metal industries, at first limited to the Basque Provinces, particularly around Bilbao, have spread to Asturias, Almeria, Galicia, near the great ore beds and in the vicinity of many coal mines.
Vizcaya (Biscay)a tongue which is utterly unlike Celtic or Italian or any Indo-Germanic languagesuggests that the Iberians may have been an older people than the Celts and alien from them in race, though the attempts hitherto made to connect Basque with ancient traces of strange tongues in the Basque lands have not yielded clear results.
Others, especially the hill tribes of the Basque and Asturian mountains fringing the north coast, were still unquiet under Augustus, and we find a large Roman garrison maintained throughbut the empire at Leon (Legio) to overawe these tribes.
In his old age, one of his wives Sobh (the Daybreak), a Basque, bore him the first son born in his harem.
In 1236 Cordova was conquered, and Seville fell in 1248 with the help of a fleet from the Basque coast and of the Moorish king of Granada, who was Fernandos vassal, paying tribute and attending Cortes when summoned.
The Basque, who till much later times practically included the Navarrese, was a man of another nationality and another speech from the Castilian.
Then all the forces of King Aiphonso under Marshal Quesada gradually closed round the remaindel of the Carlist army in Navarre and in the Basque Provinces at the beginning of 1876.
A civil code was carefully drawn up by Seor Alonzo Martinez, in order to consolidate the very heterogeneous ancient legislation of the monarchy and the local laws of many provinces, especially Catalonia; Aragon, Valencia, Navarre, and the Basque territory.
Canovas did not live to see his scheme put into practice, as he was assassinated by an anarchist at the baths of Santa Agueda, in the Basque Provinces, on the 9th of August 1897.
The ongoing Basque question continues to dominate the political arena.
The humor may have dated, but where else will you see Cliff smoking a cigarette or Sylvia Syms wearing a basque?
So go on, add some spice to your life and buy that sexy basque or even better that black thong for him.
This stunning basque in sheer mesh with delicate floral embroidery is fastened with a zip at the front.
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The Le Pen's and some of the Basque MEPs are conspicuous because they are always accompanied by burly bodyguards.
A basque with removable straps will also provide more support than just a strapless bra.
The Popular Party's government also managed to sharply curtail the terrorist activities of the Basque pro-independence ETA group.
Build up your own team with the 4 Basque soccer teams actually playing in the 1st division of the Spanish League.
The red basque dress has had the hemline lowered by approximately two inches & is now back on the portrait.
The traditional Basque houses are mirrored on the north of the frontier - a line that cuts through an ethnically homogenous region.
Juan Carlos Ocaña is concerned about Basque and Catalan nationalism in Spain.
The Statute of Autonomy fell short of the self-rule that basque nationalism demanded.
The Spanish government blamed basque separatists for what is being called the worst terrorist attack in its history.
Very pretty black and pink basque with matching thong.
The latter constitute the Basque region of France (see Basques) and cover the west of the department.
The war of tariffs between France and Spain after 1891 was an inducement for an extraordinary development in the making of brandy and liqueurs of every kind, of fruit preserves, potted meats, etc., in Navarre, the Basque Provinces, Catalonia, and even in Valladolid and Andalusia.
The Spanish government blamed Basque separatists for what is being called the worst terrorist attack in its history.
Hilary Hillman I am a member of the Basque separatist movement called ETA.
The Spanish parliament rejected the plan, which Mr Ibarretxe says is the only way to stop Basque separatist violence, earlier this year.
The region's foods are also influenced by Basque cooking.