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Brewer's: Moors
In the Middle Ages, the Europeans called all Mahometans Moors, in the same manner as the Eastern nations called all inhabitants of Europe Franks. Camoens, in the Lusiad, terms the Indians “Moors.” (Bk. viii.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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