kalian

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One kalian artist who abandoned paint and canvas altogether was Ettore Bugatti.

From Time Magazine Archive

After all were settled, and their chuddars and veils carefully folded up and put aside by the slaves, then the kalian or water-pipe was brought in, each slave preparing the pipe for her own mistress.

From Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East by Hume-Griffith, A.

A servant brought the Khan a handsome kalian to smoke three times.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

While my volunteer cook is thus busily engaged, a company of distinguished travellers passing along the road halt at the tchai-khan to smoke a kalian and drink tea.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran by Stevens, Thomas

Afterward we repair to Mirza Abdul Kiirim Khan's house to smoke the kalian and drink tea.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran by Stevens, Thomas