Guernica
Basque town in northern Spain: bombed and destroyed in 1937 by German planes helping the insurgents in the Spanish Civil War.
(italics) a painting (1937) by Pablo Picasso.
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How to use Guernica in a sentence
Late in the afternoon of April 26, 1937 waves of bombers obliterated the ancient capital of Basque Spain, Guernica.
Life Under Air Strikes: Children Under Fire Will Never Forget — or Forgive | Clive Irving | August 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNow those are destroyed, too, and the animals are strewn about, bloating and stinking, as if in a tableau of “Guernica.”
Anyway, Orner first published some of them as “Five Shards,” in the online magazine Guernica.
Intriguing, Humorous, Even Poetic: Peter Orner’s New Story Collection | Joseph Peschel | August 13, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTFor ourselves, we turned our faces toward the centre of Vizcayan glory, the famous Tree of Guernica.
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British Dictionary definitions for Guernica
/ (ɡɜːˈniːkə, ˈɡɜːnɪkə, Spanish ɡɛrˈnika) /
a town in N Spain: formerly the seat of a Basque parliament; destroyed in 1937 by German bombers during the Spanish Civil War, an event depicted in one of Picasso's most famous paintings. Pop: 15 454 (2003 est): Basque name: Gernika
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