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A pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water
Answer for the clue "A pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water ", 6 letters:
hookah
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Word definitions for hookah in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also hooka , 1763, from Arabic huqqah "small box, vessel" (through which the smoke is drawn), extended in Urdu to the whole apparatus.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A hookah (see other names) is a single or multi-stemmed instrument for vaporizing and smoking flavored tobacco or cannabis , called shisha , whose vapor or smoke is passed through a water basin—often glass-based—before inhalation. Health risks of smoking ...
Usage examples of hookah.
In this chamber some half dozen persons were seated in the Eastern fashion, and smoking either the choice tobaccoes of Syria through the cherry-wood or jasmine tube of a Turkish or Egyptian chibouque, or inhaling through rose-water the more artificial flavour of the nargileh, which is the hookah of the Levant.
Dr Jacob seized Stephen, kissed him on both cheeks and led him into a cool, shaded room where a jug of horchata stood on a low table and smoke from the hookah hung from the ceiling down to eye level.
At night he listened to his rebetika records in the attic and smoked his hookah pipe.
Half a dozen guerrillas too young to grow beards sat around a small potbellied stove sucking on hookahs.
Thick coils of smoke rose from the hookah before the hold-mistress, wreathing her knife-kissed features in the cloying, tarry fumes.
Racks of demented comic books loomed beside tables littered with hookahs and handmade clay pipes.
Well, I was impressed by the huge blue Caterpillar smoking the hookah atop the giant mushroom because I know how hard it is to keep a water pipe lit.