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Definition of Calean
1. Noun. An oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water. "A bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola"
Generic synonyms: Pipe, Tobacco Pipe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calean
Literary usage of Calean
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Memoir of the Rev. Henry Martyn, B.D. by John Sargent (1830)
"As there were long intervals, often, in which nought was heard but the gurgling
of the calean, I looked round with some anxiety for something to discourse ..."
2. Memoir of the Rev. Henry Martyn by John Sargent (1820)
"After the usual salutations and inquiries, the calean (hooka) was introduced,
then coffee in china cups placed within silver ones, ..."
3. The Letters of the Rev. Henry Martyn by Henry Martyn (1844)
"After the usual salutations and inquiries, the calean (or hookah) was introduced ;
then coffee, in china cups placed within silver ones, ..."
4. A New Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar: And Present State of by William Guthrie, James Ferguson, John Knox (1801)
"... equal to three-pence E"g'' :, fot which they are refreshed with a calean to
smoke, and coffee. 1 mode of exercise must contribute to health, ..."
5. Popular Voyages and Travels Throughout the Continents and Islands of Asia by Frances Thurtle Jamieson, Jamieson (Frances Thurtle) (1820)
"... drink out of 1he same cup, and s moke ont of the same calean, as readily as
they would with their 'own children; but they will not use the .same bath. ..."
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