Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Turkish pipe, usually with a mouthpiece of amber, a stem, four or five feet long and not pliant, of some valuable wood, and a bowl of baked clay.
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- noun Alternative form of
chibouk .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Deenarzade, the former leading the head camel, the latter using my chibouque stick as a staff.
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In virtue whereof he was now mounted on the arm of an easy-chair, with a long _chibouque_, which became the gravity of an incipient bachelor better than a cigar, and took upon himself to give Thornhill (who was really a clever fellow, and professing to be reading for a first) some advice as to his conducting himself when his examination should arrive.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various
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Then came a servant with a chibouque and coffee: and the head negotiators were soon co-operatively engaged.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various
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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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Here we sat drinking sherbet, and, of course, smoking the unfailing chibouque.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various
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Each person contributes from the leathern bottles and bags at his saddle-bow a portion towards the general mess, which is prepared by a certain number of the party in turn; and while it is being made ready, the others having said their evening prayers and performed their ablutions resign themselves to the soothing influences of the chibouque, if not prohibited, and to the cordial of coffee, if they have any.
Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia John Milton Mackie
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So thought I and my two friends as we sat smoking the chibouque of reflection, at that best of Smyrna's cafés, on the French quay.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various
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After this age the diameter of the cigarette increases year by year; and when a lady has reached the mature age of twenty-four, no one sees anything remarkable in her smoking a modest little chibouque as she sits on the lower divan of the harem.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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"Allah is great and Mohammed is his prophet -- do I know him?" he repeated, taking a long draw at his chibouque as if to calm his nerves, while he lay back for a moment motionless amid his cushions.
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Of those Turkish pipes which are used in Egypt, Mr. Lane, after mentioning the narghile and the chibouque or "shibuk," says: --
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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