rizla

From the Rizla+ brand of rolling papers, coined in 1886 from French riz (“rice”) and Lacroix, referring to the use of rice paper and the inventor's family name.

rizla (plural rizlas)

1. A rolling paper.
   • 1997, Alex Garland, The beach:

     A slight breeze picked up, sending a few loose rizlas skimming along the sand.

   • 1998, M C Strong, The great rock discography:

     Answers on the back of a rizla paper to the usual address.

   • 2005, Matthew Fuller, Media ecologies: materialist energies in art and technoculture:

     At the front of the classroom the cadaver of a singer is laid out on a workbench cluttered with Bunsen burners, rizlas, vinyl.

• Rizal