Turkish tobacco
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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We won't spoil it, but it involves the Crimean War, Turkish tobacco and the silks and tassels of Middle Eastern exoticism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2016
Its return shipments were more exotic: monkeys from Calcutta, leopard skins from Yemen, Italian vermouth, Turkish tobacco.
From Time Magazine Archive
To woo Turkey into military alliance, Great Britain promised, among other things, to buy 20,000,000 Ibs. of Turkish tobacco per year for 20 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
Strong Turkish tobacco that burns as smoothly as mild Virginia leaf?
From Time Magazine Archive
He then took me to a cigar-store, and bought me twelve half-pound papers of fine Turkish tobacco, some pipes, and a box containing one hundred fine cigars.
From The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document by Anonymous
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