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catfish row
noun
a black neighbourhood in a southern US city US, 1965
For the setting of his 1935 folk opera Porgy and Bess, George Gershwin used Catfish Row, a fictionalisation of an alleyway named Cabbage Row off Church Street in Charleston, South Carolina.- I think perhaps the spades are better off here, the weather is kinder, and certainly there is something softer about the Catfish Row type of thing as contrasted with the grim phalanxes of tenements one sees in Chicago. — James Blake, The Joint, p. 136, 22 August 1956
- It’s a night for temptation, the kind of temptation one might see on Catfish Row at the end of the cotton season on the weekend. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 315, 1965
- No lights, not even porch lights in this catfish row-alley section of Augusta. — Odie Hawkins, Men Friends, p. 60, 1989
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