Turkish tobacco

American  

noun

1. a strongly aromatic tobacco, grown chiefly in Turkey and Greece, used in cigarettes.

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Turkish tobacco British  

noun

1. a fragrant dark tobacco cultivated in E Europe, esp Turkey and Greece

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Example Sentences

It might not seem possible to heighten the terror of Pierrot boring a hole in Columbine’s skull, filling it with an excellent Turkish tobacco and smoking that contently through a straw.

From Los Angeles Times

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

It is said that Turkish tobacco contains prussic acid, and that Havana tobacco has another alkalide called collidine, of which one-twentieth of a drop will kill a frog, with symptoms of paralysis.

From Project Gutenberg

The lower classes smoke a coarse Turkish tobacco, or a Persian mild sort looking like whitish sawdust, which is merely the pounded leaf, stalk, and stem.

From Project Gutenberg

Napoleon opened a small �tui, twirled up a large cigarette of Turkish tobacco with great dexterity, and lighted it at the wax taper on the table beside him.

From Project Gutenberg