Citations:petun

early French name for tobacco, from Tupi/Guarani or another native language

 * 1766, Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, Journal of a Voyage to North-America ... in a series of letters to the Duchess of Lesdiguieres, etc. A translation of the “Journal d'un voyage dans l'Amérique Septentrionnale”, page 94:
 * The continual Use which all the Nations of Canada made of a Sort of Petun, or wild Tobacco, which grows every where in this Country, have made some Travellers say that they swallowed the Smoke, and that it served them for Food; but this is not found true ...


 * 1936, Gertrude Robinson, Sachim Bird, page 53:
 * &quot;My father smokes pétun, real tobacco, not pooke that makes a great smoke.&quot; Robeen, who had read of strange weeds that were pungent when burned and that the Indians used in place of tobacco, as told in Gosnold&#39;s chronicles, thrust the ...


 * 1995, Fernando Ortiz, Fernando Ortiz Fernández, Cuban Counterpoint, Tobacco and Sugar, Duke University Press (ISBN 9780822316169), page 160:
 * "[...]; the women also use petun, though not so frequently." [...] In similar terms the Frenchman J. de Léry describes the method of smoking petun
 * 2011, J. R. Montgomery, Attawondaronk, iUniverse (ISBN 9781462049165), page 250:
 * Ontarra had never learned to enjoy smoking petun. He was mystified when he found himself beginning to crave the bitter, burning juice. It seemed to invigorate and refresh him. Gradually, his stamina returned.


 * 1626, Johann Neander, Traité du tabac ou nicotiane, panacée, petun: autrement herbe à la reyne
 * 1880, H. A. Depierris, La vérité sur le tabac: le plus violent des poisons, la nicotine : résumé de la physiologie sociale du H.A. Depierris : le tabac abrége-t-il l'existence? ..., page 9:
 * Leur Manitou le plus vénéré était celui qui résidait dans la plante Petun — tabac — qui leur donnait le pouvoir de se ...
 * 1905, Augustin Cabanès, Comment se soignaient nos pères. Remèdes d'autrefois, 1re et 2e séries, page 313, quoting Saint-Amant, Pied crotte:
 * Et où tous ses supposts s&#39;assemblent / Yvres de bierre et de petun (tabac) / Pour faire un tapage importun.
 * 1914, Jean Jules Jusserand, From the Renaissance to the Civil War, pt. 2, 2nd ed., page 94:
 * An appellation long in use, though now forgotten. Rhadamantes is especially severe, Aux faux beats, aux hypocrites; Quand il en attrape quelqu&#39;un, De leur chair il fait du petun Et ce petun le déconstipe, N&#39;en auroit-il pris qu&#39;une pipe. Scarron, “Virgile Travesti.” “Petun, tabac.; on ne s&#39;en sert que par raillerie: c'est un preneur de petun."—Gattel, "Dictionnaire Francais," Lyon, 1819.