Calean (Noun)
Meaning
An oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water; "a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola".
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The traditional café offered patrons a choice of flavored tobaccos to smoke from the calean.
- As he sat cross-legged on the floor, the man inhaled deeply from the calean, feeling the cool smoke fill his lungs.
- The ornate calean sat atop a low table, its long tube coiled like a snake as it waited for its next user.
- In the old bazaar, the smell of sweet tobacco wafted through the air as men gathered to smoke from the calean.
- The sound of gentle bubbling water accompanied the conversation as the group passed the calean around the circle.