shisha bar
noun [ C ] (also sheesha bar) uk/ˈʃiː.ʃə ˌbɑːr/ us/ˈʃiː.ʃə ˌbɑːr/ (also shisha cafe, shisha house, shisha lounge)
水烟馆，水烟吧
a place where customers can sit and smoke shisha (= pipes for burning tobacco, in which smoke passes through a container of water before it is breathed in)
There are hundreds of shisha bars in the city. 城里有上百家水烟馆。
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- In Belgium, smoking is allowed at shisha bars, but food may not be served in the same place.
- More authentic Egyptian socializing is to be found by sharing a water pipe with friends in the numerous sheesha bars.
- When a football match is on, shisha cafes are packed with people gathered around the TV sets.
- There is a dense warren of outdoor shisha cafes in the back alleys surrounding Cairo's old stock exchange.
- He took me to another shisha house, where we started to teach each other bits of Arabic and English.