[
UK
/mˈiəstʃaʊm/
]
NOUN
- a pipe having a bowl made of meerschaum
- a white clayey mineral
How To Use meerschaum In A Sentence
- Of course, most of my reading time is spent in my wood-panelled library, smoking my Meerschaum pipe and contemplating the imbrication of hegemonic discourses. G.I. Joe
- Maybe... yeah, maybe I'll look into where opal meerschaum comes from. THE MOAT AROUND MURCHESON'S EYE
- To colour a meerschaum was the ambition of smokers, swearing was considered neither low nor vulgar, and snuffing was fashionable. Fifty Years of Railway Life in England Scotland and Ireland
- The biggest surprise was Everett's Holmes: a compelling, brilliant, darkly original character, much closer to the original stories than to deerstalkers and meerschaums and Basil Rathbone.
- For, your meerschaum is a fragile thing, and eminently frangible. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce
- Well, donning my deerstalker and lighting my meerschaum I'd start at the bottom.
- The Honourable Sir Ralph Mountharten sharply rapped his meerschaum pipe against the surface of his mahogany writing desk.
- Before I inhabited a wood-panelled library and smoked a Meerschaum and contemplated the imbrication of hegemonic discourses, I grew up in a gun shop literally; it was attached to the house. G.I. Joe
- See, the soul is this smoke, that evanishes so quickly; the body this meerschaum that I have in my fingers, and will smoke again, please God. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860
- A small pipe -- I think the Germans call meerschaum -- I could not despise, nor a great bundle of tobacco, which I thrust into the inside pouch of the cloak. Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker