casbah
kas buh
- n an older or native quarter of many cities in northern Africa; the quarter in which the citadel is located
- Author Bowles, 38, a composer and former music critic, has lived since 1947 in the casbah of Tangier.
- But as night fell over the casbah, shots rang out in Algiers and in every other big city in the country.
- Still outwardly a rebel, Zerrouk slipped back into the casbah as Bigeard's chief informer.