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/bˈɑrbəri koʊst/ Listen

Barbary Coast

noun

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).

The Mediterranean coast of northern Africa that was famous for its Moorish pirates.

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"Barbary Coast" Quotes from Famous Books

... few days at Gibraltar, where the rest of the squadron were then at anchor; and then sailed with all of them in company to Naples. During the remainder of the year 1816 the ship cruised along the Barbary coast until the winter had fairly set in, when she with the other vessels repaired to Port Mahon. Although now so close to the spot where his race originated, Farragut's journal betrays no interest in the fact. He was still too young ...

— Admiral Farragut • A. T. Mahan

... of this the three sought a resort farther up-town, where they found the entire upper floors of a restaurant building given over to "trotting." During the previous winter the craze for dancing had swept New York like a plague, and the various Barbary Coast figures had reached their highest popularity. Here, too, the rooms were thronged and the tables taken, despite the lateness of the season, but for a second time Wharton demonstrated that to a man about town of his accomplishments no place is ...

— The Auction Block • Rex Beach

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