Meaning of Barbary Coast | Babel Free

Definitions

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

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.”

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