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Barbary Coast   /bˈɑrbəri koʊst/   Listen
Barbary Coast

noun
1.
A part of a city that is notorious for gambling dens and brothels and saloons and riotous night life (especially the waterfront of San Francisco after the gold rush of 1849).
2.
The Mediterranean coast of northern Africa that was famous for its Moorish pirates.





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"Barbary Coast" Quotes from Famous Books



... got me aboard her. I'll tell you how it was. One evening late I was just coming out of a dark alley on the Barbary Coast, San Francisco. You know—the water front, where you can hear more tongues than at Port Said, see stranger sights, and meet adventure with the joyous certainty of mediaeval times. I'd been down there hunting up a man reported, by ...
— The Mystery • Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams


Words linked to "Barbary Coast" :   seacoast, sea-coast, city district, coast, Barbary, seashore


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