Plural of chibouk; multiple long-stemmed Turkish or Middle Eastern tobacco pipes.
Regular English plural of 'chibouk' (from Turkish 'çubuk'). The plural appears in historical accounts of Ottoman coffeehouses and European descriptions of Turkish customs.
17th-century European paintings often show groups of men smoking chibouks in ornate coffeehouses—these paintings became status symbols showing that the owner traveled or had exotic taste. The chibouk was basically the luxury accessory of the 1600s!
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