The
man who pulls an old T.D.,
Its bowl as black as jet,
With
scorn looks on the dapper youth
Who smokes a cigarette.
The
youth who likes his dainty puff,
Of high or low degree,
Looks
with disdain upon the man
Who smokes an old T.D.
July
9, ‘05
T.D. pipes
first appeared ca. 1755 (Walker 1972), named after pipemaker Thomas Dormer.
T.D. pipes became so popular for their design that by the nineteenth century
they were “produced by numerous pipemakers in a multitude of variations” (De
Vore 1993: 33). T.D. pipes eventually came to stand for a generic style of pipe
and not for the pipemaker.
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