basque
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 17
- Words With Friends
- 19
- Letters
- 6
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Definition of basque
5 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- A member of a cultural and ethnic people living in the western Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay between France and Spain.
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noun
- A member of a cultural and ethnic people living in the western Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay between France and Spain.
- 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.
“Will she be able to pull off the double act? Can she play the cosy tradwife and still be the sexpot in a basque?”
name
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The language of the Basque people.
“If you like a challenge, try Hungarian. It’s like no other European language you’ve heard, except maybe Basque.”
adj
- (not-comparable)Relating to the Basque people or their language.
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Etymology
Borrowed from French basque, from Gascon Occitan basc, from Latin Vascō, Vascōnēs pl, a pre-Roman era tribe settled in the Atlantic Biscaian gulf and Pyrenean mountain region of south-western Europe, who were ancestors of the current Basque population.
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