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
Strong Turkish tobacco that burns as smoothly as mild Virginia leaf?
From Time Magazine Archive
Its generalissimo is a man as different from him as Turkish tobacco from burley�a lanky, shy Virginian, Otway Hebron Chalkley.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its return shipments were more exotic: monkeys from Calcutta, leopard skins from Yemen, Italian vermouth, Turkish tobacco.
From Time Magazine Archive
The air became heavy with smoke, the prevailing aroma being that of Turkish tobacco of which Harrigan was not at all fond.
From The Place of Honeymoons by Keller, Arthur Ignatius
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