Turkish tobacco
Americannoun
noun
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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
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
Its return shipments were more exotic: monkeys from Calcutta, leopard skins from Yemen, Italian vermouth, Turkish tobacco.
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
So Cleon, having chosen a pipe, tipped it with a new amber mouthpiece, charged the bowl with fragrant Turkish tobacco, handed the stem to Ducie, and then applied the light.
From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 by Wood, Charles W.
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