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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

... in Stamboul itself at the palace of some sanjak-bey or emir, or rather dozed, with one slumbrous eye that would open to watch my visitors Sinbad, and Ali Baba, and old Haroun, to see how they slumbered and dozed: for it was in the small luxurious chamber where the bey received those speechless all-night visits of the Turks, long rosy hours of perfumed romance, and drunkenness of the fancy, and visionary languor, sinking ...
— The Purple Cloud • M.P. Shiel

... to be the first to let go of an Arab's hand, so that tact is required as well as patience; but it was well worth while standing in the sun repeating the back-and-forth rigmarole of Arab greeting if that meant that Ali Baba and his sixteen sons and grandsons were to be our companions on the adventure. They followed us at last into the governorate, and sat down on the hall carpet with the air of men who know what fun ...
— The Lion of Petra • Talbot Mundy

... come to the very mouth of the cave. All we have to do is to say—not "Open Sesame," like Ali Baba in the tale of the Forty Thieves—but some word or two which Madam Why will teach us, and forthwith a hill will open, and we shall walk in, and behold rivers and cascades underground, stalactite pillars and stalagmite statues, and all the wonders of the grottoes of Adelsberg, ...
— Madam How and Lady Why - or, First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children • Charles Kingsley

... theatrical personages; and the gates of her old haunt "The Wells," of the "Cobourg" (by the kind permission of Mrs. Davidge), nay, of the "Lane" and the "Market" themselves, flew open before her "Open sesame," as the robbers' door did to her colleague, Ali Baba (Hornbuckle), in the operatic piece in which ...
— Men's Wives • William Makepeace Thackeray



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