Halfzware
Dutch translation: light-heavyweight*
Half strong/dark/rich/heavy tobacco. Typically a Dutch fine-cut shag tobacco containing fire-cured Kentucky and milder Virginia tobaccos.
Refers to flavor (fairly distinctive), cut (fine-cut shag) and strength (strong by American standards) of the tobacco, not necessarily the color (typically dark).
Drum, Jester, Bali, Sampson, Mac Baren, Look-Out, Mynheer, Arbo, Jason, Amsterdam Shag, etc.
Halfzware fine-cut is a type of dark to very dark tobacco with long fibres, usually from Africa or America.*
See also: Zware
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- how to pronounce it?
- Posted by pavel on Thursday, 23-Dec-2004
I smoke Drum tobacco; it's written on the pouch "halfzware shag". Does anyone have an idea how to pronounce it correctly, I mean the "halfzzzzz..." part?
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- Re: how to pronounce it?
- Posted by Tim Aydt on Tuesday, 04-Jan-2005
My guess is that it's 'half-zware' like swear with more of a zzzzzzzzzzzz.
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- Re: how to pronounce it?
- Posted by Dave L on Wednesday, 05-Jan-2005
FWICT the Dutch word zwaar (zware) is pronounced zw-are, not z-where.
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