Dictionary Entry

moors

An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath

In a Sentence

“A cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step.”

Origin

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Common Phrases

. moorsmoors yorkshiremoors yorkmoors grousemoors high

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Poetry examples for “moors”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Now move to war her sable Matadores,
In show like leaders of the swarthy Moors.
Spadillio first, unconquerable lord!

Vengeful across the cold November moors,
Loud with ancestral shame there came the bleak

From the land of the Dacotahs,
From the mountains, moors, and fen-lands
Where the heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah,

From the land of the Dacotahs,
From the mountains, moors, and fen-lands, 15
Where the heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah,

On moors and commons and the pasture green,
He leaves them undisturbed to root and run,

That seemed to lengthen with the following eye
Moors, loosing from the sight, far, smooth, and blea
Where swopt the plover in its pleasure free

That come a-swooning over hollow grounds,
And wither drearily on barren moors :
Dread opener of the mysteiious doors

Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors—
No—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,

Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors—
No—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,

Comparing, joyfully, their plenteous stores
Of happiness, to when upon the moors,
Benighted, close they huddled from the cold,