Definition of "narghile" [narghile]

• See hookah. (noun)

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• ""The narghile is the peace pipe of the Middle East.""
• "Some of the Egyptians use a form of hookah called the narghile or nargeeleh -- so named because the water is contained in the shell of a cocoanut of which the Arabic name is nargeeleh."
• "{2} The narghile is a water-pipe upon the plan of the hookah, but more gracefully fashioned; the smoke is drawn by a very long flexible tube, that winds its snake-like way from the vase to the lips of the beatified smoker."