Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An aromatic Turkish tobacco.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fine variety of Turkish tobacco.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A superior quality of Turkish smoking tobacco, so called from the place where produced, the ancient Laodicea.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A type of
pungent Turkish tobacco .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a seaport on the western coast of Syria
- noun aromatic Turkish tobacco
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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There were forty or fifty people there, drinking coffee and sirops and filling the air with the fumes of latakia.
Greenmantle 2005
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She suggested to him some subjects that he might develop, and taught him — up to then opposed to the weed — how to smoke latakia tobacco in a hookah pipe.
Balzac 2003
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Very image conscious—an Excalibur and a Corniche, conspicuous clothes, blonds on each arm, blew Dunhill latakia through a thousand-dollar meerschaum.
Blood Test Jonathan Kellerman 1986
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Very image conscious—an Excalibur and a Corniche, conspicuous clothes, blonds on each arm, blew Dunhill latakia through a thousand-dollar meerschaum.
Blood Test Jonathan Kellerman 1986
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Very image conscious—an Excalibur and a Corniche, conspicuous clothes, blonds on each arm, blew Dunhill latakia through a thousand-dollar meerschaum.
Blood Test Jonathan Kellerman 1986
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He leaned back and savored the exotic smoke: perique, latakia, and Turkish, flavoring a base of the finest Virginia.
1968 Haldeman, Joe & Fields, Trinity 1984
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Madame Dudevant was an excessive smoker, and during Balzac's visit to her, she had him smoke a hooka and latakia which he enjoyed so much that he wrote to Madame Hanska, asking her to get him a hooka in
Women in the Life of Balzac Juanita Helm Floyd
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Constantinople that the best could be found; he wished her also, if she could find true latakia in Moscow, to send him five or six pounds, as opportunities were rare to get it from Constantinople.
Women in the Life of Balzac Juanita Helm Floyd
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He found his highness reclining upon a divan, his back supported by cushions, smoking latakia in a chibouque, while an icoglan scratched the soles of his feet, and two slaves fanned him.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various
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There were forty or fifty people there, drinking coffee and sirops and filling the air with the fumes of latakia.
Greenmantle John Buchan 1907
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