perique

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

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

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  • Orleans, is the little settlement of Grand Point, the place most famed in St. James for perique tobacco. —  Four Months in a Sneak-Box
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
 

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

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  1. F. in Louisiana: said to be named from Pierre Chenet, who introduced tobacco culture among the Acadians of Louisiana.
 

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