Meerschaum

Quick meaning: Meerschaum is a noun meaning (uncountable) A soft white mineral, chiefly used for smoking-pipes and cigar holders.

Meaning

(uncountable) A soft white mineral, chiefly used for smoking-pipes and cigar holders.

More Meanings

1. (countable) A smoking-pipe made from meerschaum.

Example Sentences

The sale of part of his property cleared the rest. A large portion of his income was put aside to accumulate. Horses, pictures, wines, bijouterie, German meerschaum, and Turkish hookahs, were alike brought to the hammer.

There was nothing else to do, and he was doing it to the best of his ability - having, in fact, fallen into a trance of admiration before a large meerschaum - when MacQuibble hove in sight on his way to the Life Class at the Gallery.

At Paris, just after dark one gusty evening in the autumn of 18—, I was enjoying the twofold luxury of meditation and a meerschaum, in company with my friend C. Auguste Dupin, in his little back library, or book-closet, au troisiême, No. 33, Rue Dunôt, Faubourg St. Germain.

He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of binoculars, a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam.

Word Forms

• meerschaums

Synonyms for meerschaum

Depending on context, synonyms include sepiolite.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sepiolite, pipe, seafoam, keffekil, kiefekil, vanmeersscheite.

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