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Strong-flavored tobacco
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perique
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Perique is a type of tobacco from Saint James Parish, Louisiana , known for its strong, powerful, and fruity aroma. When the Acadians made their way into this region in 1776, the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes were cultivating a variety of tobacco with a ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perique \Pe*rique"\, n. [Louisiana F.] A kind of tobacco with medium-sized leaf, small stem, tough and gummy fiber, raised in Louisiana, and cured in its own juices, so as to be very dark colored, usually black. It is marketed in tightly wrapped rolls called ...
Usage examples of perique.
Anjou beckoned Perique from the room and they spoke softly in Spanish, in the hallway.
Now there were footsteps in the hallway, telling that Perique was about to return.
Hoisting it with a heave of his strong shoulders, Doug swung the cot toward the spot where he expected Perique would be - and was.
The cot crashed and Perique with it, his club clattering to the stone floor.
CHAPTER VIII A LETTER TO THE SHADOW APARTMENT 5C at the Greendale Arms was much more comfortable than the tiny waterfront hide-out where Perique had taken Doug Lawton.
I woke up and found him looking at me in a little dump where that monkey-face, Perique, is hanging out?
I socked Perique, ducked out, and found I was right opposite the Darien Pier.
That was why The Shadow dismissed the names of Klauder and Perique with a peculiar laugh which carried something ominous in its sinister note.
There The Shadow left the battle, for as Klauder and Perique came to their feet, they heard a parting laugh that was suddenly muffled by the slamming of the door.
Cliff and Miles were still there, but Klauder and Perique had broken free and fled in different directions.
Instead of going away, Perique and I kept watching from across the street.
He and Perique had come to Eastport, too, and had picked up the trail from that vicinity here to Iron Head.
Circling June and Doug with the flashlight, Anjou nudged Perique and the group began what June suddenly feared might become a death march.
June watched Perique go out to the car, which was facing straight toward the boathouse.
Again, weird shadow shapes appeared to move into the glow as though trailing Perique at every move.