Neo-Mudéjar

English
Arc de Triomf, Barcelona (1888)

Alternative forms
  • Neo-Mudejar, neo-Mudéjar

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish neomudéjar or neo- +‎ Mudéjar.

Noun

Neo-Mudéjar (uncountable)

  1. (architecture) A type of Moorish Revival architecture popular in the Iberian Peninsula in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
    • 2005, Kelly Lipscombe, Spain, Hunter, →ISBN, page 448:
      The popularity of the style has since spread throughout the country and in many cases is still being utilized in what is known today as the Neo-Mudéjar style. Most of Teruel's Mudéjar monuments miraculously survived one of the longest and bloodiest battle of the Spanish Civil War.

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