Barbary coast
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Definitions
Noun
- 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) wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 The Mediterranean region off the coast of North Africa, once notorious as a haven for pirates
- 2 A waterfront area of San Francisco at the time of the gold rush. broadly
"The tango, the Texas Tommy, Walking the Dog, the one step, the fox trot, the shimmy, and all their out-growths, had their origin in the palaces of lust on the Barbary Coast of San Francisco."
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More examples"The tango, the Texas Tommy, Walking the Dog, the one step, the fox trot, the shimmy, and all their out-growths, had their origin in the palaces of lust on the Barbary Coast of San Francisco."