casbah
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Also among the possibilities: Iceland in winter, exploring the “birthplace of tea” in China, or strolling through the sacred granaries, casbahs and feasts of Morocco, or tracking wolves in Sweden.
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The twins were just shy of 2 years old in 1957 when French troops seized Asselah, then 33, at the doctor’s office where he worked in the casbah of Algiers.
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“I treat Home Depot like a casbah,” she said.
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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.
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Pepe Le Pew nods to “Algiers” with his references to getting away to “zee casbah,” the citadel area of the city, and his 1954 short was titled “The Cat’s Bah.”
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