beedi
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Borrowed from Hindi बीड़ी (bīṛī).
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beedi (plural beedis)
- A thin, often flavored, Indian cigarette made of tobacco wrapped in a tendu leaf.
- 1990, Charles Bukowski, “letter, 15 September”, in Abel Debritto, editor, On Writing, Canongate, published 2016, page 198:
- I always write with the music on and a bottle of good red. And smoke Mangalore Ganesh beedies.
- 2022 June 6, Hannah Ellis-Petersen, quoting Leena Manimekalai, “Indian director receives threats over film poster of goddess with Pride flag”, in The Guardian[1], Guardian Media Group, retrieved 2022-06-06:
- She said: “In rural Tamil Nadu, the state I come from, Kaali is believed to be a pagan goddess. She eats meat cooked in goat’s blood, drinks arrack, smokes beedi [cigarettes][sic] and dances wild … that is the Kaali I had embodied for the film.”