Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A last pipe smoked before going to bed.
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Other professional men smoked -- we read in Fielding's "Amelia" of a doctor who in the evening "smoked his pillow-pipe, as the phrase is" -- and among the rest of the people of equal or lower social standing smoking was as generally practised as in the preceding century.
The Social History of Smoking George Latimer Apperson 1897
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