Barbary Coast

Barbary Coast

1. The Mediterranean coastal area of Barbary and the Barbary States.2. A waterfront area of San Francisco, California, in the years after the 1849 gold rush. It was notorious for its gambling dens, saloons, brothels, and disreputable boarding houses.

Barbary Coast

n (Placename) the Barbary Coast a historic name for the Mediterranean coast of North Africa: a centre of piracy against European shipping from the 16th to the 19th centuries

Bar′bary Coast′

n. 1. the Mediterranean coastline of the former Barbary States. 2. the San Francisco waterfront in the 19th century, notorious for prostitutes, saloons, and gambling houses.

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Noun	1.	Barbary Coast - 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); "we'll tolerate no Barbary Coast in this city!"city district - a district of a town or city
	2.	Barbary Coast - the Mediterranean coast of northern Africa that was famous for its Moorish piratesBarbary - a region of northern Africa on the Mediterranean coast between Egypt and Gibraltar; was used as a base for pirates from the 16th to 19th centuries