‖ calean, callean, calleoon
[Pers. qaliyān.]
‘A water-pipe for smoking; the Persian form of the hubble-bubble’ (Yule).
| 1739 Elton in Hanway Trav. (1762) I. i. v. 16 Several persians of distinction, who, smoaking their callean, observed a profound silence. 1811 H. Martyn Let. in Mem. iii. (1825) 412 Reclining in garden and smoking caleans. 1828 Kuzzilbash i. 59 (Y.) The elder of the men met to smoke their calleoons under the shade. |