houka
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]houka (plural houkas)
- Alternative spelling of hookah
French
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Pronunciation
[edit]- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /u.ka/
Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]houka f (plural houkas)
- hookah (pipe)
- 1857, Charles Baudelaire, “Au lecteur”, in Les Fleurs du mal [The Flowers of Evil], Paris: Poulet-Malassis et De Broise:
- C’est l’Ennui ! — l’œil chargé d’un pleur involontaire, / Il rêve d’échafauds en fumant son houka.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
[edit]- “houka”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.