casbah

variants also kasbah

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Recent Examples of casbah The rooms—seven in the main kasbah and another seven spread around the grounds—are as lovely as can be, but Dar Ahlam is not a traditional hotel. Ann Abel, Forbes, 18 Dec. 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 views from the kasbah, nestled deep in the hills outside Marrakech, are uniformly spectacular. Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Oct. 2024 The face-offs that started with a break-in at Wick’s house have since traveled to antique weapons stores and Casablanca casbahs; New York City tunnels, bridges, harbors, and public libraries; and European museums and churches, with no civilians ever getting caught in the crossfire. Vulture, 25 Mar. 2023 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for casbah
Noun
  • That same Christmas in Columbia, a settlement of four blockhouses and 50 settlers founded a month earlier at what is now Columbia-Tusculum, pioneers held a feast.
    Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 15 Dec. 2024
  • One of the original blockhouses overlooks the canal, while the old town is filled with art galleries and craft stories.
    Joe Yogerst, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • As for the grounds, there is an in-ground pool suitable for a European villa, a cabana with a full kitchen, a bathroom, and an underground bunker containing all the pool’s mechanical systems.
    James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 29 June 2025
  • Iran took extensive measures to protect its leader, hiding him in a bunker deep underground and using an aide to deliver messages from him to other leaders to prevent any electrical signatures giving him away.
    Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • Iran's most advanced and hardened nuclear facility, the Fordow plant in the country's northwest, is a fortress.
    Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 June 2025
  • The then-British fortress was famously captured by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold in May 1775, marking a pivotal moment in the early stages of the Revolutionary War.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • The researchers think the camp was built in the second century C.E. Over the years, archaeologists have found many forts, towers, cemeteries, canals and temporary military camps along the Limes.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2025
  • The city's three forts — rough affairs at best — stood in South, North and East Austin.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025

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“Casbah.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/casbah. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.

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