Al-hăm'bresque, a.

(-bresk), a. [Fr. Alhambra, i. e., the red (sc. house), from al, the, and ahmar, f. hamrā, red.] After the fanciful manner of the ornaments in the Alhambra, a palace of the Moorish kings at Granada, affording an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic architecture. Art Journal.