moorish

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: Moor=ish

CIDE DICTIONARY

moorish, a. [From 2d Moor.].

 Having the characteristics of a moor or heath.  Thomson.  [1913 Webster]

moorish, a. [See 1st Moor, and cf. Morris, Moresque.].

 Of or pertaining to Morocco or the Moors; in the style of the Moors.  [1913 Webster]

Moorish architecture, the style developed by the Moors in the later Middle Ages, esp. in Spain, in which the arch had the form of a horseshoe, and the ornamentation admitted no representation of animal life. It has many points of resemblance to the Arabian and Persian styles, but should be distinguished from them. See Illust. under Moresque.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

moorish, adj. of or relating to the Moors.

Idiom

Moorish idol a brightly-coloured Pacific fish of the genus Zanclus.

ROGET THESAURUS

moorish

Marsh

N marsh, swamp, morass, marish, moss, fen, bog, quagmire, slough, sump, wash, mud, squash, slush, baygall, cienaga, jhil, vlei, marsh, marshy, swampy, boggy, plashy, poachy, quaggy, soft, muddy, sloppy, squashy, paludal, moorish, moory, fenny.