| 单词 | plague pipe |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplague pipe plague pipe n. historical a small clay pipe which was smoked as a remedy during the Great Plague of 1665. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > pipe > other types of pipe calumet1717 pillow pipe1752 meerschaum1799 corn-cob pipe1832 bulldog1885 plague pipe1892 Peterson1906 shell-briar1972 1892 Daily News 30 May 3/1 The small ‘plague’, or ‘elfin’ pipes, as they are variously called, of the time of the Restoration. 1901 Westm. Gaz. 22 May 8/2 Some ‘Plague pipes’, so called owing to their being smoked at the time of the great Plague of London, were excavated at Hackney yesterday. 1973 Times 11 Aug. 9/6 About the clay pipes he had virtually a fetish. He called them ‘plague pipes’ and it was believed that some of them had been used for smoking coltsfoot, yarrow and mouse-ear. < as lemmas |
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