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What does perique mean?

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Noun
  1. A kind of tobacco with medium-sized leaf, small stem, and tough and gummy fiber, raised in Louisiana and cured in its own juices, so as to be very dark in color. It is marketed in tightly wrapped rolls called carottes.
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It is said that the output of genuine perique is small, being well under 50,000 lbs.
Most people in St. James have a story about someone who tried to smoke or chew perique straight.
Fans describe perique as spicy, earthy and rich.
He stayed seated on the edge of the gallery and began to smoke cigarettes which he rolled himself of perique tobacco.
But there is a good deal of substitute perique sold in lieu of the genuine kind.
Mr. Brown and Mr. Nichols resolved to do something to preserve perique.

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