Crossword-Solution: AZULEJOS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 24

These houses are rich in Moorish porcelain tilings, called azulejos--from the Arabic ez-zulaïj--but the best of these are in the patio of the citadel.

Here the gold and red of _Mudejar_ ceilings are exquisitely represented, as in the chapter-room; there Moorish influence in _azulejos_ (multicoloured glazed tiles) and in decorative designs is to be seen, such as in the horseshoe arches of the triforium in the chapel of the high altar.

The walls below are clothed to the height of about four feet with the _azulejos_, or porcelain mosaic, of the sort originally employed by the Arabs, and from which the ornament took its name, being blue and white, without any other colour.

The centre portal of this façade is ornamented, from the ground to the roof, with rich tracery, varied by a band of blue and white _azulejos_, and terminating in an advancing roof of carved cedar.

With the exception of this room, all the principal apartments, and the two courts, are decorated from the ground upwards to a height of about five feet, with the _azulejos_, or mosaic of porcelain tiles, the colours of which never lose their brilliancy.