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Definition of Nargile
1. n. An apparatus for smoking tobacco. It has a long flexible tube, and the smoke is drawn through water.
Definition of Nargile
1. narghile [n -S] - See also: narghile
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nargile
Literary usage of Nargile
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Twelve Thousand Words Often Mispronounced by William Henry Pinkney Phyfe (1908)
"Narcissus—nar-sls'-us. nargile—nar'-gil. Worcester says nar'-gil. ... See nargile.
nasal—na'-zal nascent—nas'-gnt, not na'-sent. Naseby—naz'-bi. ..."
2. A Tour Around the World in 1884: Or Sketches of Travel in the Eastern and by J[ohn] B. Gorman (1886)
"Like the famous "nargile," it was an arrant humbug. ... I took none of that
Turkish coffee, or "nargile," the poets dream about. ..."
3. Mohammed Ali and His House: An Historical Romance by Luise Mühlbach (1898)
"... come into my store with me and let us chat with each other while we smoke the
nargile, and refresh ourselves with a cup of coffee. ..."
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