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  • The favourite article is a "dudheen," a well culotté clay, used and worn till the bowl touches the nose.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • It was this renaissance that gave the death-blow to the squireen type of phoney Irish writing which created that charmingly-inane myth wearing a "caubeen", smoking a "dudheen", long upper-lipped, with shamrocks growing from his ears-the stage Irishman.

    The Irish Mind 1957

  • By great good luck my sexton had about him his own short black dudheen, which accordingly the Minstrel filled and fired.

    The Cornwall Coast

  • Sucking the corpse of his deceased dudheen, he staggered through his duties with his barrowful of stones and dirt, feeling for the first time that the curse of Adam was upon him.

    Sixes and Sevens O. Henry 1886

  • dudheen,” a well culotté clay, used and worn till the bowl touches the nose.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • And didn’t she up in sorgues and go and trot doon and stand in her douro, puffing her old dudheen, and every shirvant siligirl or wensum farmerette walking the pilend roads, Sawy,

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Heaven bliss the owld gintleman -- he had a habit of stopping in the middle of an exciting part and lighting his dudheen, and then when he'd begin again, he'd skip over a part on purpose to make us ax him a question ---- "

    Adrift in the Wilds or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878

  • He’d a power av ragârd av the good people, an’ when he wint be the rath beyant his field, he’d pull aff his caubeen an’ take the dudheen out av his mouth, as p’lite as a dancin’ masther, an’ say, ’God save ye, ladies an’ gintlemen,’ that the good people always heard though they niver showed thimselves to him.

    Irish Wonders 1878

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