opium pillow

noun

A hard ceramic or wooden bed pillow, used in opium dens, into which the opium smoker would place their valuables as they sleep for safekeeping.

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Meanings

nounopium pillow (plural opium pillows)

plural opium pillows

  1. historicalA hard ceramic or wooden bed pillow, used in opium dens, into which the opium smoker would place their valuables as they sleep for safekeeping.
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