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Example sentences for: barbary

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The Barbary Coast was burned down after the Great Earthquake of 1906, but its tawdry tradition lives on in the (now ever-dwindling) number of topless bars and strip clubs along Broadway.
The tail-less Barbary apes that inhabit the Rock are natives of North Africa, descended from monkeys brought over by sailors as pets and ships’ mascots.
And the forbidding, fortified cathedral that stands just inland from the waterfront Paseo de Almería was built during the 16th century, when Barbary pirates were terrorizing the coast (see page 18).
The United States fought its first war against the Barbary Pirates, who terrorized U.S. shipping in the Mediterranean at the turn of the 19 th century.
As mediterrancean Lingua Franca was used on the Barbary Coast of North Africa, there were many words that it borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese.