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also kasbah
as in alcazar
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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.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 Feb. 2026
Dar Ahlam is a beautiful renovation and realization of a 200-year-old kasbah near Ouarzazate, at the gateway to the Sahara Desert.
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Ann Abel,
Forbes,
18 Dec. 2024
The views from the kasbah, nestled deep in the hills outside Marrakech, are uniformly spectacular.
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Angie Han,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Oct. 2024
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.
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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.
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Peter Haldeman,
New York Times,
26 Apr. 2017
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
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
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
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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.
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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.
Noun
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This one turns out to be more of a bunker, really, carved into a Norwegian cliff face.
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The 33-year-old, playing at TPC River Highlands for the ninth time, was in a bunker 80 feet from the 13th hole after his second shot on the 526-yard par-5.
Noun
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Was a wedding at that hulking fortress in Midtown Manhattan gauche?
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The footage opens with fortress-like coastal imagery before moving into large-scale period sets, suggesting the film will have the epic scope of Hugo’s story while grounding it in a raw visual language.
Noun
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Washington and his men had left the fort heading west toward the sounds of gunfire.
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Background and conception Roughs Tower, or HM Fort Roughs, was originally built in 1942, one in a series of large sea forts built in the North Sea by Great Britain during World War II.
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“Casbah.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/casbah. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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