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- noun Plural form of
meerschaum .
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Examples
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He knew a shop at which were to be had some very pretty new-fashioned meerschaums, which, he had been told, smokers of pipes found to be excellent.
Ayala's Angel 2004
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He knew a shop at which were to be had some very pretty new-fashioned meerschaums, which, he had been told, smokers of pipes found to be excellent.
Ayala's Angel 1993
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Norwegian process -- where butter abounded, and had lighted our meerschaums, we went at a gallop homewards.
A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross
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I answer, First and foremost retrench things needless, doubtful, and positively hurtful, as rum, tobacco, and all the meerschaums of divers colors that do accompany the same.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 Various
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Pipe-colorers, who go around coloring pipes or meerschaums, pride themselves on the rapidity with which they are enabled to color a pipe.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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This occupied some little time; and after collecting a decent boatful, we lighted our meerschaums, and floated homewards.
A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross
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This will aim a blow at side stove-pipes as well as at meerschaums; but, fortunately, it will not prevent the smoking of hams or of perpendicular chimneys.
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A week later Billy and I sat on the veranda of the company's hash-foundry, figuring up our time and smoking our cob meerschaums, when one of the boys who had been to the office, placed two letters in
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Not many old meerschaums knocking about with a tale like that attached to 'em.'
An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) David Christie Murray
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The cloud-compelling meerschaums were produced, and they sat in high-backed chairs, watching the thin wreaths of smoke as they curled upwards to the skylight.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various
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