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medina|mɪˈdiːnə|
Also Medina.
[Arab., ‘town’.]
The non-European section of a North African town.
1906D. Sladen Carthage & Tunis II. i. 330 Inside, these great houses of the Medina are just as stately. 1935G. Gorer Africa Dances i. vii. 76 The dispossessed negroes went to live in the Medina, a geometrical ghetto of one-room stone huts. 1950R. Landau Invitation to Morocco iii. 28 Leaving the native medina surrounded by its ancient walls untouched, he erected outside it an entirely new town. 1961J. Anthony About Tunisia i. 28 My favourite walks were in the residential quarters high in the Medina. 1972Country Life 13 Jan. 86/2 The crowded Medinas of Islamic cities. 1972W. McGivern Caprifoil (1973) x. 174 He never made the mistake of pretending he understood Arabs. He had grown up with them..listened in the medinas to the rise and fall of the wise men's prayers. |