Basques, a people of the Western Pyrenees, partly in France and partly in Spain; distinguished from their neighbours only by their speech, which is non-Aryan; a superstitious people, conservative, irascible, ardent, proud, serious in their religious convictions, and pure in their moral conduct.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Basque Roads * Bas-relief