Basque: Definition and part of speech

Basque

  1. 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.
  2. a. Pertaining to Biscay, its people, or their language.
  3. n. One of a race, of unknown origin, inhabiting a region on the Bay of Biscay in Spain and France.
  4. n. The language spoken by the Basque people.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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