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Kak Serwan Posted 10 years ago
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While I am reading an novel I read "Moorish eyes!"
Who knows the meaning of "Moorish eyes" please?
He went on telling stories about his travels, and her bright, Moorish eyes went wide with fear and surprise.?
  

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) Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula and some other nearby areas during the Middle Ages. They would probably have beautiful, large, dark eyes. "She" may be a descendant of the Moors.

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  • ) Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula and some other nearby areas during the Middle Ages.
  • They would probably have beautiful, large, dark eyes.
  • "She" may be a descendant of the Moors.
  • I don't know the time (era) reference for the sentence.
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a novel, not "an novel"

Moors were (are?) Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula and some other nearby areas during the Middle Ages. They would probably have beautiful, large, dark eyes.

"She" may be a descendant of the Moors. I don't know the time (era) reference for the sentence.
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