Basque
/bɑːsk/ · noun
Meaning
- A woman's close-fitting bodice, underbodice, or corset having such a feature.
- Relating to the Basque people or their language.
- The language of the Basque people.
- 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.
Etymology / origin
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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