chibouk
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of chibouk
1805–15; < Turkish çibuk, variant of çubuk literally, shoot, sapling, staff
Example Sentences
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He led Lancey to the room in which they had first met, and, seating himself on a divan, lighted his chibouk.
From In the Track of the Troops by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Dropper protested that he wouldn't make his lungs a stove-pipe to oblige anybody—even the sultan and his sultanas—and he accordingly dropped the hose, and ordered a chibouk.
From The History and Records of the Elephant Club by Q. K. Philander Doesticks
He performs his daily labor, makes his prostrations, smokes his chibouk, and lives oblivious of care.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
There were, perhaps, fifty Turks inside and out; sitting cross-legged, smoking the chibouk, and drinking coffee out of cups not larger than the shell of a Madeira-nut.
From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) by John Lloyd Stephens
She remembered seeing somewhere a picture of some Sultan of the East reclining on a divan and smoking a chibouk.
From A Spirit in Prison by Robert Smythe Hichens
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