Meaning of caporal | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A type of shag tobacco.
   uncountable
2. A foreman or overseer.
   Latin-America

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Examples

“[T]he seats were uncomfortable, the place was crowded, the air thick with caporal horrible to breathe, but in their young enthusiasm they were indifferent.”

“She had been sitting there for nearly an hour and a half, and during that time she had drunk two glasses of black coffee, smoked six caporal cigarettes and read the week's Candide.”

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