Word of the Day: TOBACCONALIAN


ETYMOLOGY
from tobacco, after bacchanalian


EXAMPLE
“…As we passed on, the number of promenaders increased, but scarcely a lady was now to be seen. Every other gentleman we met was enveloped in a cloud, not of bacchanalian, but tobacconalian incense, which gave a peculiar atmosphere to the Levee…”

From: The South-West
By Joseph Holt Ingraham, 1835

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