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Historic section of Algiers
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casbah
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 The fortress in a city in North Africa or the Middle East. 2 (qualifier: by synecdoche) The medina, the older part of a city in North Africa or the Middle East. n. 1 The fortress in a city in North Africa or the Middle East. 2 (qualifier: by synecdoche) ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an older or native quarter of many cities in northern Africa; the quarter in which the citadel is located [syn: kasbah ]
Usage examples of casbah.
The wealthy see the Anschluss as a danger to their position, but much more vulnerable and immediately threatened are the inhabitants of the Casbah.
Marlowe was rapidly finding out that the tubes of the rocket trash were a world within a world, the Casbah of the orbiting environment.
Stepping to the edge of the waist-high yellow tape stretching from the corner of the Nightwood Bar to the Casbah Motel, she evaluated the area.
Hurriedly she crested the hill and saw at the lighted windows of the Casbah Motel figures looking down into the parking lot.
Floyt in mind of the sewers of ancient Paris, stories of the long-gone Casbah, and pictures he'd seen of hobo jungles.
They had visited the sights of Ankh-Morpork, its crowded docks, its many bridges, its souks, its casbahs, its streets lined with nothing but temples.
Over in that Casbah, starved-looking, shave-needing ragheads lean out of spindly towers yodeling out of key.
Before he's even got it latched he's yodeling just like those guys up in the Casbah.
Before he’s even got it latched he’s yodeling just like those guys up in the Casbah.