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Barbary pirate

NOUN
  1. a pirate along the Barbary Coast

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  • Greenwald seems to be wrong about enforcing blockades in international waters, but if “piracy is by definition undertaken by non-state actors,” what are we to make of the infamous Barbary pirates, and the tribute payments made to and wars fought with the Barbary States? The Volokh Conspiracy » Greenwald and Gaza
  • It was a wooden figurehead carved in the shape of an embowed, cheerfully grinning dolphin—worn, wormholed, its paint flaking with age; the original figurehead of the schooner Enterprise, that Stephen Decatur sailed against the Barbary pirates at Tripoli, four hundred years before. THE WOUNDED SKY
  • It once was the stronghold of North African corsairs, better known as Barbary pirates, who roamed the Mediterranean several hundred years ago. Activists Fight to Save Crumbling Algiers Casbah
  • We have gallantly crossed swords with Barbary pirates along the shores of Tripoli.
  • The research vessel, a century-old 60-foot gaff-rigged ketch, looks more like it belongs to Barbary pirates than to contemporary scientists.
  • PubliusFL: Greenwald seems to be wrong about enforcing blockades in international waters, but if “piracy is by definition undertaken by non-state actors,” what are we to make of the infamous Barbary pirates, and the tribute payments made to and wars fought with the Barbary States? The Volokh Conspiracy » Greenwald and Gaza
  • During that period he claimed to have been captured by Barbary pirates near Marseilles and sold into slavery in Tunis.
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