The inducement to this identification was no doubt the singular resemblance which the word bears to the Javanese name of cubeb pepper, viz.
Cubeb pepper was much used in the Middle Ages as a spice, and imported into Europe as such.
I went for a walk with Bettina and Jasper shortly after my talk with Jasper, leaving Tish with the evening paper and Aggie inhaling a cubeb cigarette, her hay fever having threatened a return.
And Miss Aggie, although she is very sweet, is always smoking cubeb cigarettes for hay fever, and it looks terrible!
Tish was knitting quietly and planning to give the money back to the town in the shape of a library, and Aggie was holding a cubeb cigarette to her nose.
In the thirteenth century cubeb is mentioned among the import articles of London.
Cubeb cigarettes are used in the treatment of nasal catarrh.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century cubeb disappeared almost entirely from medical practice.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cubeb" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: condiment; pepper; salt; spice
