cheroot

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  1. noun A cigar with square-cut ends.

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  • Michael Grade puffed on his expensive cheroot, appeared in front of the cameras and declared his channel's latest FA Cup cock-up was 'inexcusable'. —  Football.co.uk news feed
  • Michael Grade puffed on his expensive cheroot, appeared in front of the cameras and declared his channel's latest FA Cup cock-up was 'inexcusable'. ... —  Football.co.uk news feed
  • His friend accepted the cheroot, and resigned himself to further waiting. —  The Path to Honour
  • Soon the half-caste lighted a huge Burmese cheroot, and in the light, almost the flare, of this immense cigar, nine or ten inches long and an inch thick, Jack saw now and again his beardless brown face, his big, shining, evil eyes When the dawn came and Jack could look about him, they were traversing a narrow path through jungle so thick that the sky could scarcely be seen overhead Ah," said Saya Chone, breaking the silence at last, "you may look round, my lord, but you will never be able to keep in mind the details of the route. —  Jack Haydon's Quest
  • U Saw was quietly pulling at a huge cheroot, his eyes fixed dreamily on the leaping flames of the great fire, and, save for the prisoner and his armed guards, the whole scene had the air of a peaceful camp, of a caravan of merchants resting for a night on their march An hour passed, and the scene had but changed to this extent that the moving figures had settled down to a man to give themselves up to the soothing influence of tobacco. —  Jack Haydon's Quest
 

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  1. French cheroute, ultimately from Tamil curruṭṭu, from curi, to be spiral.

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  1. Also spelled sheroot; = Portuguese charuto, a cigar, tobacco-leaves, from Hindustani churūt, a cigar; prob. orig. a native name in the Philippine islands.
 

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