单词 | magaliesberg tobacco |
释义 | > as lemmasMagaliesberg tobacco A tobacco grown in the Magaliesberg area of the North-West Province in South Africa, used originally as pipe tobacco but subsequently also in the manufacture of cigarettes. Also attributive, esp. in Magaliesberg tobacco. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] petun1568 tobacco1588 Indian herbc1600 weed1600 Indian weed1602 man-bane1614 smokec1616 fogusc1625 Indian drug1630 sot-weed1698 noxious weed1773 baccy1792 backer1823 bacca1824 tobaccy1835 nicotia1868 nicotina1876 snout1885 Magaliesberg1895 tickler1904 burn1964 1895 J. G. Millais Breath from Veldt iii. 32 There sits the old Boer on the top of his waggon, solemnly blinking in the sun as he puffs away at his Magaliesburg. 1910 J. Runcie Idylls by Two Oceans 78 I gathered a handful of Magaliesberg from my pocket, and held it to him. 1937 H. Sauer Ex Afr. 28 During question time tobacco pouches were freely handed round by the men, everybody filling his pipe from the pouch of someone else..but as the tobacco was usually the same brand of Magaliesberg there was not much in it. a1951 H. C. Bosman in L. Abrahams Unto Dust (1963) 135 I could sit on my stoep and fill my pipe with honest Magaliesberg tobacco. 1970 Outpost: Stories of Police in Rhodesia 159 My citizens smoked Magaliesberg tobacco, manufactured in the form of chopped twigs, which when ignited smelt like the exhaust of a diesel truck... Magaliesberg was sold in cotton bags which were tied to the belt. 1990 R. Stengel January Sun 110 Beginning in the 1970s, the quality of Magaliesberg tobacco deteriorated. < as lemmas |
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