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meerschaum

[ UK /mˈi‍əst‍ʃa‍ʊm/ ]
NOUN
  1. a pipe having a bowl made of meerschaum
  2. 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
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