They were known as street Arabs, the thousands of children without decent homes or families who cadged some sort of living on New York City streets a century ago, a threat to themselves and to others, not altogether unlike some of today's luckless inner-city youths.
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It should not be confused with street Arab, a derogatory term for " urban vagabond, homeless urchin, " as used in 1887 in Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes tale : " I therefore organized my street Arab detective corps, " which later evolved into fans styling themselves " the Baker Street Irregulars ."
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It should not be confused with street Arab, a derogatory term for " urban vagabond, homeless urchin, " as used in 1887 in Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes tale : " I therefore organized my street Arab detective corps, " which later evolved into fans styling themselves " the Baker Street Irregulars ."
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:: : : In the second half of the 19th century down to Edwardian times, " street Arab " or " city Arab " could refer to street children ( who weren't ethnically Arab at all of course; I would guess that it alluded to their being " nomadic " i . e . homeless ).
