Nargile

On a Thursday evening in February, men and women — tourists, students, and middle-aged residents — enjoyed the elegant charms of the nargile along with their tiny cups of tea. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Istanbullus fear the ban will destroy vital mainstays of the Turkish community — specifically, the nargile (water-pipe) cafés and the teahouses. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This means that nargile cafés with no outdoor seating will likely shut down, diminishing a tourist attraction on par with the Hagia Sofia and the döner kebab. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Like, Amouage is nervously smoking nargile in the corner : ❋ Marina Geigert (2008)

We've been going there every day to enjoy the ritual of smoking a water pipe Turkish: nargile or two as the sun sets over the mountains and the paragliders. ❋ Rachel (2005)

A Mekkawy, even of the lower class, must have daily on his table meat which costs from one and a half to two piastres the pound; his coffee-pot is never removed from the fire; and himself, his women and children are almost constantly using the nargile, and the tobacco which supplies it cannot be a very trifling expense. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The only amusements for summer are a nargile on the Marina, studying primitive civilization the while, during the twilight hours, and the afternoon circuit of the ramparts, where every day at five o'clock an execrable band tortures the most familiar arias with clangor of discordant brass. ❋ Various (N/A)

The supreme solace was a nargile, and its great bowl of rose-water was soon set down by the little Moorish lad at Cecil's side. ❋ 1839-1908 Ouida (1873)

There was not a trace of anxiety on him when he opened a low arched door, passed down a corridor, and entered the warm, full light of that chamber of liberty, that sanctuary of the persecuted, that temple of refuge, thrice blessed in all its forms throughout the land, that consecrated Mecca of every true believer in the divinity of the meerschaum, and the paradise of the nargile -- the smoking-room. ❋ 1839-1908 Ouida (1873)

It was not just male hairdressers; Ghoul also pointed to a ban on women smoking nargile shisha pipes and an attempt to force women lawyers to wear headscarves. ❋ Harriet Sherwood (2011)

"It helps me to relax and makes me happy," says Nayla, 30, who often goes out with her friends for a nargile. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Soon an international cast of visitors showed up, we enjoyed a sunset view and a sumptuous dinner, adjourned to the common social tent and chilled out until bedtime, talking and listening to Arabic music (especailly Azazi, the Saudi master of the oud) and passed the nargile pipe around. ❋ Unknown (2010)