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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.
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Melanie Van Zyl, Travel + Leisure, 6 Mar. 2026
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
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
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
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
Melanie Van Zyl, Travel + Leisure, 6 Mar. 2026
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
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
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for casbah
Noun
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The unique cultural makeup of Cádiz—with its famous Moorish alcazar, with its echoes of Arab-Andalusian culture playing alongside Spanish Catholic aesthetics—and its quiet way of life have been a steady guide for Judeline as she’s found her artistic voice and its visual direction.—
E.R. Pulgar,
SPIN,
20 Sep. 2024
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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The Hilton later remedied that by constructing a bunker-like garage with a secure door, so the president is not exposed.—
Katrina Kaufman,
CBS News,
28 Apr. 2026
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Facing an awkward bunker shot from 35 yards to a back pin where a miss long is death, Matt proceeded to knock it to 14 inches.—
Mark Harris OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
27 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The two stairwells are set within a 110-foot-wide core made of a concrete that’s stronger than any rock, creating a pressurized, smoke- and blast-resistant fortress.—
Michelle Sinclair Colman,
Curbed,
7 May 2026
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The eccentric design of Olana was inspired by fortresses in Persia (where, curiously, Church hadn’t travelled), as well as Italian, East Indian, Gothic Revival, and French Second Empire architecture.—
Sebastian Smee,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
Noun
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Even populous British colonies like Virginia and Pennsylvania grew blurry on their western frontiers, where indistinct borders were protected by a few lonely forts.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Zaragoza stationed his men on the high ground, hidden behind cacti, behind walls of dilapidated forts, in ditches.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
4 May 2026
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