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nargileh

/nahr-guh-lee, -ley/US // ˈnɑr gə li, -ˌleɪ //UK // (ˈnɑːɡɪlɪ, -ˌleɪ) //

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a Middle Eastern tobacco pipe in which the smoke is drawn through water before reaching the lips; hookah.

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Examples

  • I used to sit in one of the coffee-houses and drink coffee or tea and smoke the long-stemmed water-pipe, the narghile.

  • He was squatting on the floor next to an oriental coffee tray poking at a narghile that had gone out.

  • He is sitting on a cushion, leaning against the wall and smoking his narghile.

  • His meal over, the young Turk stretches himself on the floor in true Eastern style, and begins carelessly to smoke a narghile.

  • The amber mouthpiece of a narghile was between her lips and she was enveloped in a cloud of pale smoke.