What's the difference between basque and masque?

Basque


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to Biscay, its people, or their language.
  • (n.) One of a race, of unknown origin, inhabiting a region on the Bay of Biscay in Spain and France.
  • (n.) The language spoken by the Basque people.
  • (n.) A part of a lady's dress, resembling a jacket with a short skirt; -- probably so called because this fashion of dress came from the Basques.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And that ancient Basque cultural gem – the mysterious language with its odd Xs, Ks and Ts – will be honoured at every turn in a city where it was forbidden by Franco.
  • (2) How is it possible that the official mail service can say no to distributing correspondence between the mayor and his electorate?” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Pro-independence Basque demonstrators supporting Catalonia independence clash with anti-independence and unionist protesters.
  • (3) This has been interpreted in Madrid to mean that no bailout will be announced before the regional elections, which are due on 21 October in his native Galicia and in the Basque Country.
  • (4) Last week, acclaimed Basque chefs Juan Mari Arzak and his daughter Elena, owners the famous Arzak restaurant in San Sebastián, opened Ametsa , their long awaited London outpost.
  • (5) Digital dermatoglyphics of an indigenous sample of 87 males and 101 females from the Urola Valley in the Spanish Basque Country are compared with those from the nine other Basque valleys previously analyzed.
  • (6) Already known internationally for its food and its glittering annual film festival, the city will feature choral groups in the open air and an art project, Waves of Energy, bringing to life a surge of ideas suggested by the public, as well as performances and exhibitions inside sleek venues such as Basque music’s new home, Musikene, the San Telmo museum or the cube-shaped Kursaal on the edge of the sea.
  • (7) They may not be Kurds or Kosovans, but they have much in common with Basques, Bretons and Catalans.
  • (8) A total diet study has been initiated in the Basque country (Spain), the purpose of which is to provide estimates of the average intake of both food contaminants and certain nutrients.
  • (9) We have analyzed the digital and palmar dermatoglyphics in a sample of autistic children from the Basque Country.
  • (10) The genetic polymorphism of human alpha 2 HS-glycoprotein (AHSG) was studied in a sample of 466 healthy unrelated individuals resident in the Basque Country (Northern Spain) by isoelectric focusing on micro-ultrathin polyacrylamide gels followed by immunoblotting.
  • (11) Basques were found to dominate the sheep industry of California's Central Valley from Sacramento south, but to be virtually absent from other sheep-raising areas of the state.
  • (12) "Unfortunately for Basque people, due to a very old and violent conflict, their story has been told by others in Spain," says Villenueva.
  • (13) The whole world wants to see our game.” Considering that Boro’s Basque manager is not given to hyperbole, his words serve as a reminder that Brighton & Hove Albion’s visit to Teesside represents the highest of high-stakes fixtures.
  • (14) The allelic frequencies have been compared with those of other Basque and other European populations.
  • (15) Digital dermatoglyphics of a sample from the Basque Valley of Salazar, situated in the West of the Pyrenees, were analysed.
  • (16) Garzón was already well known in Spain for investigating Basque separatist group Eta.
  • (17) I was a passionate fan of the great French team led by Zinedine Zidane, in part because the Basque, North African and black players plausibly conveyed an idea of a rainbow France.
  • (18) Given the importance of ischemic cardiopathy (IC) as a cause of death in industrialized countries, the trend of mortality by IC in people from 30 to 69 years of age residing in the Basque Country between 1975-1990 were studied.
  • (19) Different analyses of genetic polymorphisms performed on the Basque population have suggested a possible heterogeneity of the Basques and a singularity of their genetic characteristics.
  • (20) Basque specials include grilled kokotxas (gelatinous, subtly flavoured hake glands, an acquired taste) in green sauce, silky red piquillo pepper stuffed with oxtail, grilled scallop and spherical steak croquetas .

Masque


Definition:

  • (n.) A mask; a masquerade.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Back in the high puritan era of 17th-century England, when Oliver Cromwell tried to ban all forms of public dance, from court masques and ballets to maypole dancing, the effect of the prohibition was to create a generation for whom dance represented sin.
  • (2) Last year, his composition The Masque of Time was given its world premiere by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
  • (3) We conclude that small airway disease due to encroachment of bronchiolar walls by SiO2 deposition is masqued by the damage produced by cigarette smoking, even in the presence of radiographic signs of silicosis.
  • (4) Other Poe titles: Stories: The Murders in the Rue Morgue; The Tell-Tale Heart; The Purloined Letter; The Masque of the Red Death; The Imp of the Perverse; The Pit and the Pendulum.
  • (5) Punchdrunk have provocatively merged theatre with art-installation in shows like Faustus and The Masque of the Red Death; I take my hat off to these and other pioneers.
  • (6) Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian He was busy in television from 1970, appearing in two Doctor Who sagas, The Claws of Axos (1971) and The Masque of Mandragora (1976), as well as in the first of the BBC’s adaptations of Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South (1975, as Frederick Hale; in the second, in 2004, he played Hale’s father, Richard).
  • (7) She’s reunited with director Sarah Frankcom, who steered her in the 2013 Manchester International Festival hit The Masque of Anarchy.
  • (8) Special protective shields and cellon masques applied allowed precise reproduction of positioning and immobilization of children during irradiation.
  • (9) It was one of those Masque of the Red Death moments, similar to the Poe story in which aristocrats dance on in the palace as the plague rages outside.
  • (10) The Masque bug in iOS and the corresponding WireLurker malware targeting iOS devices via Apple and Windows port-machines, had a lot of experts saying that the age of Apple malware is finally upon us,” says Kaspersky, although it also points out that this is still most likely to affect people who’ve jailbroken their devices.
  • (11) I've come to think of it as a sort of late-period masque, where the roles and disguises that John Harmon and Boffin consciously assume exaggerate the more ordinary play-acting and pretence that we all engage in.

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