Cavendish

Definitions

1. Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.
   uncountable
2. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
3. The most commonly sold banana; one of the triploid (AAA) cultivars of Musa acuminata.
   countable
4. A village and civil parish in West Suffolk district, Suffolk, England, previously in St Edmundsbury district (OS grid ref TL8046).
   countable, uncountable
5. A number of places in Canada:
   countable, uncountable
6. A locality in Alberta.
   countable, uncountable
7. A local service district in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador.
   countable, uncountable
8. A community, ward and former township in Trent Lakes, Peterborough County, Ontario.
   countable, uncountable
9. A rural community of Queens County, Prince Edward Island.
   countable, uncountable
10. An unincorporated community in Clearwater County, Idaho, United States.
    countable, uncountable
11. A town and census-designated place therein, in Windsor County, Vermont, United States.
    countable, uncountable
12. A township in the Shire of Southern Grampians, Victoria, Australia.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Crucially, almost the entirety of exported bananas are Cavendishes.”

“"But the managers seem inclined to cut⟳ their cavendish very fine just at present⟳," she said.”

“No man less; only he (not Vieuxbois, but his younger brother) has found a wide-awake cooler than an iron⟳ kettle, and travels by rail when he is at home; and when he was in the Crimea, rode a shaggy pony, and smoked cavendish all through the battle of Inkermann." "”

“Then burn equal parts of cavendish tobacco and old shoeleather in an iron⟳ vessel till charred.”

“It was always an augury of foul weather in Livingstone's temper when, instead of the decent evening cigar, he smoked the short black brule-gueule, loaded to the muzzle with cavendish.”

“Come⟳, I'll trate ye to a taste⟳ o' me cavendish, which is better than growlin' in yer hammock at the muskaities, poor things, as don't know⟳ no better."”

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