英语词汇babylon of the west的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	babylon of the west
词源	Babylon of the West. An old name for bloody Dodge City, Kansas, a town famous or infamous in the last half of the 19th century for its gunfights, saloons, and “soiled doves” and “Cali- co Queens” like Molly-be-damned and Cotton Tail. Some his- torians hold that the first red light district called by that name was located in Dodge.
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