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Ali Baba   /ˈɑli bˈəbə/   Listen
Ali Baba

noun
1.
The fictional woodcutter who discovered that 'open sesame' opened a cave in the Arabian Nights' Entertainment.





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"Ali Baba" Quotes from Famous Books



... try to get up to the top, an' then we can get a drink, maybe. Only I'd rather be Ali Baba than Jack, then I could say, 'Open Sesame,' and the door to the cave would open of itself, and we could walk out and carry diamonds and gold ...
— The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberry Island • Laura Lee Hope
... said Mr. Linden, smiling. "I am like Ali Baba before the storehouse of hid treasure. Is this the 'Sesame' you are waiting for?" he added, raising her face and trying ...
— Say and Seal, Volume II • Susan Warner
... What a life is theirs! Education is unknown among the Egyptian women. They have no mental resort. Life, intellectually, is to them a blank. There was a mingled atmospheric flavor impregnating everything with an incense-like odor, thoroughly Oriental. One half expected to meet Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, as we still look for Antonio and the Jew on the Rialto at Venice. The whole city, with myriads of drawbacks, was yet very sunny, very interesting, very attractive. The dreams of childhood, with those veracious ...
— Due West - or Round the World in Ten Months • Maturin Murray Ballou


Words linked to "Ali Baba" :   fictitious character, character, woodcutter, fictional character


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