chibouque
English edit
Noun edit
chibouque (plural chibouques)
- Alternative form of chibouk
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چبوق (çibuk, çıbuk, çubuk). Compare with modern Turkish çubuk.
Noun edit
chibouque f (plural chibouques)
- chibouk (Turkish tobacco pipe)
- 1844, Alexandre Dumas, Le Corricolo[1], page 7:
- — Un crime ! Et lequel ? dit le dey, tirant son chibouque de ses lèvres en regardent son interlocuteur avec l’expression du plus profond étonnement.
- "A crime! And which one?" said the Dey, pulling on his chibouk with his lips while regarding his interlocutor with an expression of the most profound astonishment.
Further reading edit
- “chibouque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.