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Briar-root Pipe

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A pipe made from the root-wood of the large heath (bruyère), which grows in the south of France.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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