A long-stemmed Turkish or Middle Eastern tobacco pipe with a small bowl, traditionally smoked socially in coffeehouses.
From Turkish 'çubuk' meaning stick or pipe stem. The word entered European languages in the 16th-17th centuries through Ottoman cultural contact, particularly via merchants and travelers.
Ottoman coffeehouses with chibouk pipes became so famous in Europe that they inspired the opening of the first European coffeehouses in Venice and Vienna—Turkish coffee culture literally shaped European social life, and the chibouk was an icon of that exotic appeal!
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