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perique

perique noun: a kind of tobacco with medium-sized leaf, small stem, and tough and gummy fiber, raised in Louisiana and cured in its own juices, so as to be very dark in color. It is marketed in tightly wrapped rolls called carottes.

Noun

perique (countable and uncountable, plural periques)

  1. A kind of tobacco with medium-sized leaf, small stem, and tough and gummy fiber, raised in Louisiana and cured in its own juices, so as to be very dark in color. It is marketed in tightly wrapped rolls called carottes.

Forms of perique

pluralperiques

Origin of perique

From Louisiana French.

Questions about perique

What does perique mean?
Perique means a kind of tobacco with medium-sized leaf, small stem, and tough and gummy fiber, raised in Louisiana and cured in its own juices, so as to be very dark in color. It is marketed in tightly wrapped rolls called carottes.
What part of speech is perique?
Perique is a noun.
What is the plural of perique?
The plural of perique is periques.

Words near perique in the dictionary

  1. peripubescent
  2. peripupillary
  3. peripylarian
  4. peripyloric
  5. peripyramidal
  6. perique
  7. periques
  8. Periquito
  9. periradicular
  10. perireceptor
  11. perirectal

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