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Definition of Perique
1. n. A kind of tobacco with medium-sized leaf, small stem, tough and gummy fiber, raised in Louisiana, and cured in its own juices, so as to be very dark colored, usually black. It is marketed in tightly wrapped rolls called carottes.
Definition of Perique
1. a dark tobacco [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perique
Literary usage of Perique
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tobacco Leaf, Its Culture and Cure, Marketing and Manufacture: A Practical by Joseph Buckner Killebrew, Herbert Myrick (1897)
"perique TOBACCO. Of all the product of the tobacco plant in America, the perique—ita
culture, ... In his honor, the tobacco so prepared was called perique. ..."
2. Supplement to the Revised Statutes of the United States by United States, William Adams Richardson, George Anderson King, William Bruce King, Edwin Charles Brandenburg (1891)
"Be it enacted, &c., That section thirty-three hundred and sixty- perique tobacco two
... And perique tobacco may be sold by the manufacturer or producer RS, ..."
3. The Culture of Tobacco by George M. Odlum, Brith South Africa Company (1905)
"perique TOBACCO CULTURE. Produced by Longfellow's historic Arcadians on a soil
created by the muddy Mississippi, cured by unique and laborious methods, ..."
4. The American Law Times Reports by Rowland Cox (1877)
"JAMES " has been invariably and continuously used on perique cigarettes by Kinney,
and, as used by him, is synonymous with perique, it by no means follows ..."
5. Reports of Cases Decided in the Circuit Courts of the United States for the by Robert William Hughes (1877)
"Because " St. James " has been invariably and continuously used on perique
cigarettes by Kin- ney, and, as used by him, is synonymous with perique, ..."
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