chibouque

English

Noun

chibouque (plural chibouques)

Alternative form of chibouk

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چبوق‎ (çibuk, çıbuk, çubuk). Compare with modern Turkish çubuk.

Noun

chibouque f (plural chibouques)

chibouk (Turkish tobacco pipe)
- 1846, Julia Pardoe, Miss Pardoe's Complete Works, page 55:
  “Khoja,” said the pasha, slowly, removing the chibouque from his mouth, and looking towards the secretary; “write that Yacob the Jew shall, before sunset, pay an avania to the pasha of one hundred piastres, for selling dhourra within the walls of the city, without authority—now Hebrew, once more we listen.”

Further reading

“chibouque” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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