单词	casbah
释义	casbah noun cas·​bah ˈkaz-ˌbä  ˈkäz-  variants or Casbah or less commonly kasbah or Kasbah 1 : a North African castle or fortress 2 : the native section of a North African city Example Sentences Recent Examples on the Web La Muralla Roja, designed in 1968 and completed in 1973, in the coastal city of Calpe, reimagined the North African casbah as a bright pink assemblage of walls and stairways as if arranged by M.C. Escher. New York Times, 19 Jan. 2022 The records company’s founder Neil Bogart channeled the movie Casablanca with a disco touch, depicting a desert casbah invitation to the exotic city. Roxanne Robinson, Forbes, 28 Aug. 2021 She was arrested at a hideout in the casbah in 1957 but freed five years later, when Algeria declared independence in 1962, sparking the mass exodus of Europeans from the country. Washington Post, 9 July 2021 The community’s salmon-pink palette was suggested by the rosy sandstone walls, and its hilltop clubhouse, introduced by a Middle Eastern-style water stair, was placed to overlook the villas like a casbah surveying so many riads. Peter Haldeman, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2017 Word History Etymology French, from Arabic dialect qaṣba First Known Use 1844, in the meaning defined at sense 1 casbah noun variants also kasbah as in alcazar Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance alcazar blockhouse bunker fortress citadel fort castle parapet stronghold garrison house dugout battlement rampart fortification bastion redoubt breastwork bulwark earthwork embattlement fastness hold
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