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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