narghileh

English

Noun

narghileh (plural narghilehs)

1. Alternative form of narghile.
   • 1855, Bayard Taylor, “Pictures of Damascus”, in The Lands of the Saracen; or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam & Co., […], page 123:

     Leaning back, cross-legged, against the cushions, with the inseparable pipe in one’s hand, the view of the court, the water-basin, the flowers and lemon trees, the servants and dragomen going back and forth, or smoking their narghilehs in the shade—all framed in the beautiful arched entrance, is so perfectly Oriental, so true a tableau from the times of good old Haroun Al-Raschid, that one is surprised to find how many hours have slipped away while he has been silently enjoying it.

   • 1872, E[dward] H[enry] Palmer, “Notes of a Tour in the Lebanon”, in Palestine Exploration Fund. Patron—The Queen. Quarterly Statement for 1872., London: […] [A]t the Society’s Office, […], and by Messrs. Bentley & Son, […]:

     So many visits all at once entailed an amount of sweetmeats, sherbet, coffee, and narghilehs, which threatened entirely and for ever to ruin our digestion.

   • 1897, Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman Jr., “The Library, Smoking-room, and “Den””, in The Decoration of Houses, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 151:

     The smoking-room proper, with its mise en scène of Turkish divans, narghilehs, brass coffee-trays, and other Oriental properties, is no longer considered a necessity in the modern house; […]

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Noun

narghileh m (plural narghilehs)

1. Alternative spelling of narguilé