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Catttt Posted 9 years ago
Vocabulary
Barbary pirates
Does "Barbary pirates" mean "fake goods acclaimed to be from the east"? and does "Algerine" mean from the country Algeria?
Context:
In the meantime, however, Americans continued to be fascinated by the remote. While excitement was high over
the depredations of the Barbary pirates, Ibraham Adam Ben Ali, a Turk or (as an editor thought more likely) ‘some crafty native, who has assumed a Turkish name’ went about selling the Incomparable Algerine Medicine for the scurvy.
Context:
In the meantime, however, Americans continued to be fascinated by the remote. While excitement was high over
the depredations of the Barbary pirates, Ibraham Adam Ben Ali, a Turk or (as an editor thought more likely) ‘some crafty native, who has assumed a Turkish name’ went about selling the Incomparable Algerine Medicine for the scurvy.
Top answer
No, Barbary pirates were pirates who operated from the coasts of North Africa. They were a great menace to shipping in the Mediterranean and to the coasts of Southern Europe for several centuries until they were finally defeated in the 1800s. Yes, Algerine means from Algeria.
- No, Barbary pirates were pirates who operated from the coasts of North Africa.
- They were a great menace to shipping in the Mediterranean and to the coasts of Southern Europe for several centuries until they were finally defeated in the 1800s.
- Yes, Algerine means from Algeria.
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No, Barbary pirates were pirates who operated from the coasts of North Africa. They were a great menace to shipping in the Mediterranean and to the coasts of Southern Europe for several centuries until they were finally defeated in the 1800s.
Yes, Algerine means from Algeria.
Yes, Algerine means from Algeria.
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