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Perique
Webster's Dictionary
(n.) A kind of tobacco with medium-sized leaf, small stem, tough and gummy fiber, raised in Louisiana, and cured in its own juices, so as to be very dark colored, usually black. It is marketed in tightly wrapped rolls called carottes.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Perique'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/p/perique.html. 1828.