Definition of "latakia" [lat•a•ki•a]

• An aromatic Turkish tobacco. (noun)

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• "There were forty or fifty people there, drinking coffee and sirops and filling the air with the fumes of latakia."
• "She suggested to him some subjects that he might develop, and taught him — up to then opposed to the weed — how to smoke latakia tobacco in a hookah pipe."
• "Very image conscious—an Excalibur and a Corniche, conspicuous clothes, blonds on each arm, blew Dunhill latakia through a thousand-dollar meerschaum."