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Example sentences for: basque

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' Basquear is probably derived from Celtic waska `oppression'; una basquería `a dirty trick' might be from Basque , although the word for the Basque language is vascuense (eúscaro in Basque), and one would expect the Spanish spellings of words relating to the Basques to begin with a v . I do not know about pato , as in ser el pato de la boda : ducks are usually considered objects of sympathy, as in pagar el pato `to pay the duck, be blamed for someone else's misdeeds' or hacerse pato `to make oneself a duck, play dumb' rather than “be the life of the party.”
Among other parts of Spain, Andalucía is more folkloric, Catalonia and the Basque country more proudly independent.
Riding on top of a bus in the Spanish countryside, squeezed in among people whose language (Basque) he doesn't speak, he turns his attention to the land around him.
“But on your way, look out for Newfoundland,” seems to have been the slogan of the old North Atlantic navigators, from the good Irish Abbot Brendan in the sixth century and the wild Norsemen in the 11th, to all the Basque, French, Spanish, and Portuguese fishermen who preceded explorer John Cabot, paid £10 by Henry VII for finding “the new isle” in 1497.
The Spanish press led on the decision by the Basque terrorist organization ETA to declare an "indefinite truce" on the lines of the IRA in Ireland.