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Answer for the clue "Pipe for Xaviera Hollander? ", 6 letters:
hookah

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Word definitions for hookah in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Eventually the headman passed on the hookah stem and stood up, saying he'd go and fetch the soothsayer.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hookah \Hook"ah\ (h[oo^]k"[.a]), n. [Per. or Ar. huqqa a round box or casket, a bottle through which the fumes pass when smoking tobacco.] A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water. Also ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hookah may refer to: Hookah , single or multi-stemmed instrument for vaporizing and smoking flavored tobacco. Also known as waterpipe, narghile, arghila, qalyān, shisha, amongst others Hookah lounge , an establishment where patrons share hookah / shisha ...

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.

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.