Black Legend
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Calque of Spanish Leyenda Negra (literally “Black Legend”).
Proper noun
[edit]- The depiction of Spain and Spaniards (or, by extension, all Hispanics and their countries of origin) as bloodthirsty and cruel, greedy and fanatical.
- 1964, Jan Morris, “Wild Spain”, in Spain, Faber and Faber, published 2008, →ISBN:
- […] if the black legend seemed to be fading at last, the horrors of the Civil War revived it with a vengeance. Never was a conflict fought more bitterly.
Translations
[edit]the depiction of Spain as cruel, greedy and fanatical
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