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n. - An older or native quarter of many cities in northern Africa.

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  • Obviously the kaid who built such a kasbah was a great man: his garden, a beautiful overgrown wilderness, gone like his castle to rack and ruin, lay below at
  • So in the deserted walls of the kasbah we passed the night.
  • Towards evening we passed a ruined kasbah, rose-red in the sunset.
  • It was like walking through a dark, otherworldly kasbah in the heart of Cairo.
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