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CASTILE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A region of central Spain; a former kingdom that comprised most of modern Spain and united with Aragon to form Spain in 1479
Synonyms:
Castile; Castilla
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)
Holonyms ("Castile" is a part of...):
Espana; Kingdom of Spain; Spain (a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power)
Context examples:
It is indeed I, said the Spanish knight, speaking in the French tongue, and I pray you to pass your sword through my heart, for how can I live—I, a caballero of Castile—after being dragged from my horse by the base hands of a common archer?
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
High silken pavilions or colored marquees, shooting up from among the crowd of meaner dwellings, marked where the great lords and barons of Leon and Castile displayed their standards, while over the white roofs, as far as eye could reach, the waving of ancients, pavons, pensils, and banderoles, with flash of gold and glow of colors, proclaimed that all the chivalry of Iberia were mustered in the plain beneath them.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The last swimmers have come in from the beach now and are dressing upstairs; the cars from New York are parked five deep in the drive, and already the halls and salons and verandas are gaudy with primary colors and hair shorn in strange new ways and shawls beyond the dreams of Castile.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
