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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A cigar with square-cut ends.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A kind of cigar not pointed at either end, and thicker at one end than at the other. Cheroots were first made at Manila in the Philippine islands.
  2. n. Same as shaya-root.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A cigar with square-cut ends

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A kind of cigar, originally brought from Manila, in the Philippine Islands; now often made of inferior or adulterated tobacco.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a cigar with both ends cut flat

Etymologies

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

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