Also kaleon, kalliyun, kalyan. See also CALEAN. [Pers. kaliān, Arab. qalyān, qalyūn.] A Persian form of the hookah or narghile, a tobacco-pipe in which the smoke passes through water.
1835. Court Mag., VI. 65/2. Goorgoory kalian, or pipe smoked through water.
1876. A. Arnold, in Contemp. Rev., June, 49. They sit smoking a kaleon.
1881. Daily News, 15 July, 5/3. We had the usual half-hour’s pause, usual on such occasions to smoke the kalioun, or water pipe.
1890. Times, 28 Feb., 13/2. Tobacco … adapted to the smoking of the Persian kalian, or Turkish narghileh.
