Definitions for Mudejar

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Mudejar Mu·dé·jar

Spelling: [Spanish moo-th e-hahr]

IPA: /Spanish muˈðɛ hɑr/

Mudejar is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 156 anagrams from letters in Mudejar (adejmru).

Definitions for Mudejar

noun

1. a Muslim permitted to remain in Spain after the Christian reconquest, especially during the 8th to the 13th centuries.

adjective

1. of or relating to a style of Spanish architecture from the 13th to 16th centuries, a fusion of Romanesque and Gothic with Arabic.

Origin of Mudejar

1860-65; Spanish Arabic muddajjan permitted to stay

Examples for Mudejar

No finer specimen of the art known as mudejar existed in all Spain.

The portal is very fine, but the Moorish features are the work of mudejar and not Almohade artisans.

The building illustrates the fashion of the mudejar and Renaissance styles, almost to the effacement of the former.

The larger is of silver, in the style now known as mudejar, and dates from the second half of the thirteenth century.

Then there is the superb staircase with its "half-orange" ceiling, and the chapel with its mixed Gothic and mudejar features.

There are indications miserably faint and buried away under plaster, that the palace was richly ornamented in the mudejar style.

In any case, abundant evidence exists to show that large quantities of mudejar and Renaissance tiles were manufactured at Toledo.