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mosqueing en · NOUN

Etymology

From mosque + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The practice of visiting or attending a mosque.
    • Both in the morning and the afternoon we broke the monotony of mosqueing by going into the shops of some of the jewellers and embroidery merchants, who have been tormenting the lives out of us since we have been here […] 1934, Clara Kathleen Rogers, Henry Munroe Rogers, Journal-letters from the Orient, page 180:
    • P.L. gave me an inferior dressing gown and Mary bought one that suits her fairness, otherwise no purchases. Next morning we did some mosqueing and souking […] 2014, Diana Cooper, Darling Monster: The Letters of Lady Diana Cooper to Son John Julius Norwich, 1939-1952:
  2. (derogatory, uncountable) The introduction of Islam to a place.
    • No Islamist entity has seized upon the message sent by The Bow more than the Muslim Brotherhood—the first modern Islamic terrorist group and the Saudis' steadfast ally in the mosqueing of America. 2011, Erick Stakelbeck, The Terrorist Next Door: