Sp. /mooh dhe"hahrdd/ , n. , pl. Mudéjares /-hah rddes'/ , adj.
n.
1. a Muslim permitted to remain in Spain after the Christian reconquest, esp. during the 8th to the 13th centuries.
adj.
2. of or pertaining to a style of Spanish architecture from the 13th to 16th centuries, a fusion of Romanesque and Gothic with Arabic.
[ 1860-65; muddajjan permitted to stay ]