Miró Synonyms

mērō
New Zealand conifer used for lumber; the dark wood is used for interior carpentry
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. black-pine
  2. prumnopitys-ferruginea
  3. Podocarpus ferruginea
Spanish surrealist painter (1893-1983)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. joan miró

Miró Sentence Examples

  • In 1785, during the Spanish occupation of Louisiana, Juan Filhiol, commandant of the district of Ouachita, founded a settlement on the site of the present Monroe, which was called Ouachita Post until 1790 and then Fort Miro, in honour of the governor-general.

  • With the Spanish governor Estevan Miro, who succeeded Galvez in 1785, James Wilkinson of Kentucky, arrested at New Orleans with a flat-boat of supplies in 1787, intrigued, promising him that Kentucky would secede from the United States and would join the Spanish; but Wilkinson was unsuccessful in his efforts to carry out this plan.

  • Governor Estevan Miro of Louisiana, however, disapproved of the grant, on the ground that it would cause the province to be overrun by Americans; the settlers became restive under the restraints imposed upon them; Morgan himself left; and in December 1811 and January 1812 a series of severe earthquake shocks caused a general emigration.

  • Thus the late gouaches can be placed in the tradition of Dubuffet, Miro and Klee.