Similar words: barbary, ivory coast, barbarously, barbarossa, barbarity, barbarous, barbarian, barbarism. Meaning: n. 1. 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) 2. the Mediterranean coast of northern Africa that was famous for its Moorish pirates.
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1. These streets were the core of the Barbary Coast red-light district.
2. Known as corsairs, perhaps the most infamous Barbary Coast pirate was Barbarossa, who united Algeria and Tunisia as military states under the Ottoman sultanate and maintained his revenues by piracy.
3. When she arrived, the Barbary Coast was so bad that even vampires were afraid to come out, and she stayed underground for a long time.
4. By the early 16th century the Ottomans had also defeated the Mamlk dynasty in Syria and Egypt; and their navy under Barbarossa soon seized control of much of the Barbary Coast.
5. But for each of those and one year more, God has smiled upon The corps, from the Barbary Coast to the Eastern Sand, by sword, by gun, or by bare hand.
6. And when the TUOLOMEE left for the West Indies and the Barbary Coast Gatsby left too.
7. In fact, in a span of less than a decade, Barbary Coast corsairs plundered nearly 500 merchant vessels, commandeering the ships and selling the crews and passengers into slavery.
8. Tired of their ceaseless ransom demands, President Thomas Jefferson builds a navy and goes to war against the pirate states of the Barbary Coast of North Africa.
9. Some pirates were not loyal to any country and lived on the Barbary Coast which was along the North African coast.
10. Bronze medallions embedded in San Francisco sidewalks take visitors along the Barbary Coast Trail,(Sentencedict.com) a walking tour that connects the city's most important historic sites.
11. Having been a vegetarian, she was plenty mad at first and had to be force fed on her way to San Francisco's Barbary Coast.
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