casbah

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More tightly spun than the casbah, but just as soft.

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  1. an older or native quarter of many cities in northern Africa; the quarter in which the citadel is located

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  • More tightly spun than the casbah, but just as soft. —  Green apples - a knitting blog
  • Whitney Houston and in Javine's case the ethno-Oriental casbah winner that won for Turkey a year or two before.
  • Because much of Nablus lies in a valley, Israel can survey the camps, casbah and city below from strategic hills, and this surveillance sometimes entails using private homes that provide the best vantage point.
  • Stayed in a casbah where the kids took a camel ride into the desert. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • He sets it up quite nicely too with a storyteller, fleeing from Delhi after his beloved city is devastated by the forces of Afghanistan's Ahmad Shah Abdali, chancing upon an isolated casbah - and thereby hangs many tales. —  The Financial Express
 

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