gourbin.
/ˈɡʊəbi/ A tent, or poor dwelling-place, in Northern Africa.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > tent > [noun] > other types of tent
tenticle1548
pal1656
marquee1690
gourbi1738
marquise1749
yurt1780
bell-tent1785
kibitka1799
shuldari1808
fly-tent1816
Swiss cottage1820
skin house1826
big tent1843
ridge tent1846
brush tent1862
dog tent1862
shelter tent1862
wall-tent1862
wedge tent1862
pup tent1863
A tent1863
tupik1864
tentlet1879
choom1889
pyramid1889
tortoise tent1890
safari tent1926
tent-sack1940
tent-trailer1963
tepee1970
trailer tent1971
Whillans box1971
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] > vile or miserable
hell-holec1400
dogholec1450
cabin1594
sty1605
hole1616
hogsty1688
gourbi1738
rathole1770
pigsty1798
hell's kitchen1827
den1836
kennel1837
pigpen1872
rural slum1886
1738 T. Shaw Trav. Barbary & Levant 288 These Gurbies are generally raised either with Hurdles, daubed over with Mud, or else they are built out of the Materials of some adjacent Ruins, or with square Cakes of Clay baked in the Sun.
1854 J. R. Morell Algeria 262 The mountains they were now traversing are intersected by very deep and beautiful valleys, up the steep slopes of which were clustered numerous gourbies, or huts forming villages.
1895 F. B. Workman & W. H. Workman Algerian Mem. 113 In the Province of Constantine the people..live in tents or gourbis made of white or light-coloured canvas.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 20 Jan. 2/3 I have watched for thee From my lone gourbi.
1960 Spectator 14 Oct. 561 To be a refugee from Algeria means that..you live in a leaky ‘gourbi’.
1963 Economist 29 June 1352/3 A number [of Alglerians]..must remain..in the ‘gourbis’, their floorless, mosquito-ridden mud or wattle hovels.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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