Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A strongly flavored black tobacco grown in Louisiana and used in various blends.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A tobacco, grown in Louisiana, cured in its juices and put up in carrots.
  • noun A tobacco produced in limited quantity in Louisiana by the descendants of the Acadians, mostly in St. James Parish.
  • noun The variety of tobacco-plant from which perique tobacco is made.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun 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 carottes.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Louisiana French, perhaps from Périque, nickname of , Pierre Chenet, a Louisiana tobacco grower.]

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Examples

  • Does anyone have a favorite perique tobacco blend?

    Put This in Your Pipe and Smoke It 2009

  • Does anyone have a favorite perique Louisiana tobacco blend?

    The Latest Thing They're Smoking in Pipes on College Campuses: Tobacco 2009

  • He leaned back and savored the exotic smoke: perique, latakia, and Turkish, flavoring a base of the finest Virginia.

    1968 Haldeman, Joe & Fields, Trinity 1984

  • Louisiana perique, ( 'peruke' proper,) that any old smoker would go into ecstasies over, fully equal, it is said to the genuine old-fashioned article, and that is saying a good deal.

    Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings

  • On every New Year's day I have always sent a present of coffee and perique to my cousin the Marquis, and it is Mademoiselle who writes to thank us.

    The Crossing Winston Churchill 1909

  • On every New Year's day I have always sent a present of coffee and perique to my cousin the Marquis, and it is Mademoiselle who writes to thank us.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

  • Ferry was smoking a pipe of _perique_ on the broad gallery, and both hastened to don their best jackets and doff their best caps to these interesting and interested callers.

    Waring's Peril Charles King 1888

  • There are at present nineteen families in the settlement, and they are all engaged in the cultivation of perique tobacco.

    Four Months in a Sneak-Box 1869

  • Orleans, is the little settlement of Grand Point, the place most famed in St. James for perique tobacco.

    Four Months in a Sneak-Box 1869

  • Kearns took note of it, and said, When this is over, I’m sending you a pound of the finest perique, Morgan.

    The Monstrumologist William James Henry 2009

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  • This tobacco is only grown in St. John's Parish, LA. It is produced in very small quantities and the tobacco leaves are packed tightly in wooden barrels and aged.

    July 16, 2009

  • This tobacco is only grown in St. John's Parish, LA. It is produced in very small quantities and the tobacco leaves are packed tightly in wooden barrels and aged.

    July 16, 2009