Meaning of cheroot | Babel Free

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A cigar with square-cut ends.

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“The lowest classes of Europeans, as also of the natives, and, indeed, most of the officers of country-ships, frequently smoke⟳ cheroots, exactly corresponding with the Spanish segar, though usually made rather more bulky. However fragrant the smokers themselves may consider⟳ cheroots, those who use⟳ hookahs, hold⟳ them to be not only vulgar, but intolerable!”

“1853, The Lancet, Vol. II, The Analytical Sanitary Commission. Cigars and their Adulterations, pp. 444-445, https://books.google.ca/books?id=_ZJMAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Purchased—of a Hawker, in Whitechapel-road. ¶ These cheroots were made up of two twisted wrappers or layers of thin brown paper, while the interior consisted entirely of hay, not a particle of tobacco entering into their composition. ¶ It appears that about the neighbourhood of Whitechapel, the sale of spurious cheroots of this kind constitutes a regular business.”

“1892, Rudyard Kipling, "Mandalay", in Rudyard Kipling's Verse, Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1922, http://www.bartleby.com/364/220.html ’Er petticoat was yaller an’ ’er little cap was green, / An’ ’er name⟳ was Supi-yaw-lat—jes’ the same as Theebaw’s Queen, / An’ I seed her first a-smokin’ of a whackin’ white cheroot, / An’ a-wastin’ Christian kisses on an ’eathen idol’s foot:”

“It was after nine now, and the room, scented with the acrid smoke⟳ of Westfield's cheroot, was stifling hot.”

“In distinguished despair he lighted a cheroot, and for Aaron Gadd that was no trivial gesture. Both his father and Deacon Popplewood […] contended that smoke⟳ issuing from the mouth was a little too much like⟳ the flames of Tophet for sound⟳ Congregational practice.”

“1986, Heinrich Böll, "The Unknown Soldier" in The Casualty, translated by Leila Vennewitz, New York and London: W. Norton & Co., 1989, p. 97, I had a long Virginia cheroot between my lips, it tasted deliciously bitter and mild, while in my back the goo of pus and blood and shreds of cloth and hand-grenade splinters went on simmering away.”

“2012, Christopher Simon Sykes, David Hockney: the Biography, 1937-1975. A Rake's Progress⟳, Doubleday, Chapter Ten, Hamilton offered to put⟳ them up and Hockney spent the time making a marvellous etching of him sitting in a chair holding a cheroot in his right hand.”

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