[Pers. qaliyān.] ‘A water-pipe for smoking; the Persian form of the hubble-bubble’ (Yule).
1739. Elton, in Hanway, Trav. (1762), I. I. v. 16. Several persians of distinction, who, smoaking their callean, observed a profound silence.
1811. H. Martyn, Lett., in Mem., III. (1825), 412. Reclining in garden and smoking caleans.
1828. J. B. Fraser, Kuzzilbash, I. 59–60 (Y.). The elders of the men met to smoke their calleeoons under the shade.
