Black Legend

短语

词形变化

the Black Legend

别名

black legend

释义与例句

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  1. 1.

    The depiction of Spain and Spaniards (or, by extension, all Hispanics and their countries of origin) as bloodthirsty and cruel, greedy and fanatical, especially concerning the colonial period from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century.

词源

Calque of Spanish Leyenda Negra (literally “Black Legend”).

来源：wiktionary