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- noun Plural form of
narghile .
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Examples
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University of Memphis researchers say the use of water pipes, also known as hookahs, hubble-bubbles, narghiles, shishas, gozas or narkeelas, is increasing.
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Of course, the water pipes known as hookah, narghiles, sheeshas or hubble-bubbles have been around for centuries.
West Meets East 2007
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And when it opens, drinks and hubble bubble fruity narghiles aare on the house for all of you.
Archive 2006-07-01 Rachel 2006
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And when it opens, drinks and hubble bubble fruity narghiles aare on the house for all of you.
Hurray! We're off on holiday after all! Rachel 2006
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On either side of me the sellers of carpets and clothing, mother-of-pearl knick-knacks, copper pots, and narghiles kept watch.
O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999
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On either side of me the sellers of carpets and clothing, mother-of-pearl knick-knacks, copper pots, and narghiles kept watch.
O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999
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The interval when Mahmoud might have prepared more coffee came and passed, and eventually the narghiles ceased their burbling and the men took their leave, their loud voices fading slowly into the night.
O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999
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The interval when Mahmoud might have prepared more coffee came and passed, and eventually the narghiles ceased their burbling and the men took their leave, their loud voices fading slowly into the night.
O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999
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One amusing reminiscence is the odd paradox of Théophile Gautier, that plants are unwholesome absorbents of vital air, and that for him the ideal of a garden would be a succession of asphaltum paths, with fine-cushioned seats, and narghiles for ever burning in the guise of flowers and shrubbery.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various
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The Arab shepherds in abbas of dark magenta, the black Greek priests, the green of a pilgrim's turban, the veiled women smoking narghiles and daintly sipping sherbet, pink and yellow and white.
The Wind Bloweth Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne 1908
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