casbah
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Decades have passed since she and her friends moved between hideouts in the winding streets of the casbah of Algiers, where freedom fighters once organized in secret.
From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2021
In that masterwork of ripped-from-the-headlines realism, Morricone’s terse, electrifying percussion seems to merge with the pounding footfalls of soldiers marching up and down the steps of the casbah.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 6, 2020
A man who said his name was Ali Baba presided over the place like a casbah chieftain.
From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2011
Clashes broke out on Wednesday near government offices in the old city, or casbah.
From Reuters • Jan. 27, 2011
The building is now called the casbah, and used as a large barrack; outside are the Moorish houses, and the chief part of the Moorish population.
From Notes in North Africa Being a Guide to the Sportsman and Tourist in Algeria and Tunisia by Windham, W. G.
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