Escorial

See also: escorial

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Escorial.

Proper noun

the Escorial

  1. El Escorial, a royal palace in Madrid.
    • 1992, Edwin Williamson, The Penguin history of Latin America, London, New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 73:
      The discovery of gold in Brazil fired the religious fervour of John V (1706-50) to heights of gorgeous, archaic extravagance, immortalized in the monastery-palace of Mafra, which was built as a rival to the Escorial and Versailles by a huge army of draft labour over eighteen years.

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Proper noun

El Escorial m

  1. El Escorial (a royal palace in Madrid)
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