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casbah

noun

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Definition of casbah

as in alcazar

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Recent Examples of casbah Soak up the sun at Plage d’Agadir in Morocco, and leave time to visit the city’s famous souk and kasbah ruins. — Melanie Van Zyl, Travel + Leisure, 6 Mar. 2026 The views from the kasbah, nestled deep in the hills outside Marrakech, are uniformly spectacular. — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Oct. 2024 Dar Ahlam is a beautiful renovation and realization of a 200-year-old kasbah near Ouarzazate, at the gateway to the Sahara Desert. — Ann Abel, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024 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 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 Set the scene Arriving at Four Seasons Costa Palmas feels like driving toward a kasbah in Morocco—miles of stark desert stretch out on either side before the landscape suddenly opens to an oasis on the edge of the Sea of Cortez. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Feb. 2026

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The kitchen had two notable features—a big cast-iron woodstove on which everything was cooked, and a dishwasher that stood up like a blockhouse, designed to receive trays two feet by two with wire-mesh bottoms and sides four inches high.

— John McPhee, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
Attempts by newsmen to get word from the Complex 34 blockhouse proved fruitless as pad personnel declined to supply information or page public information officials.

— Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2026

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Was a wedding at that hulking fortress in Midtown Manhattan gauche?

— Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 4 July 2026
The footage opens with fortress-like coastal imagery before moving into large-scale period sets, suggesting the film will have the epic scope of Hugo’s story while grounding it in a raw visual language.

— Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 2 July 2026

Definition of fortress

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Havana, Cuba — Cuba’s tourism sector seems to have everything from white sandy beaches to Spanish colonial forts.

— Patrick Oppmann, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
In its early years, the flag was primarily used on battlefields, military forts, and ships as a form of identification.

— Pete Cuddihy, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2026

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