ghetto

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Definition

noun formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live
noun any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping
noun a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions

Borrowed from the name of the Venetian Ghetto, whose etymology and original source language is uncertain. Compare Italian ghetto.

The population of the Ghetto passed already 250,000. — Children of the Tenements, Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
But in the Ghetto all is activity and thrift. — Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber : $b or, The influence of Romanism on trade, justice, and knowledge, J. A. (James Aitken) Wylie
The house was perhaps the oldest in all the Ghetto. — Monte-Cristo's Daughter, Edmund Flagg

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