or Arabesk, something done after the manner of the Arabians. Arabesque, Grotesque, and Moorish, are terms applied to paintings and ornaments where there are no human or animal figures, but which consist wholly of foliage, plants, stalks, &c. The words take their rise from hence, that the Moors, Arabs, and other Mahometans, use these kinds of ornaments; their religion forbidding them to make any images or figures of men or other animals.