cigarette

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Steel lay sleepily back in the cab, not quite sure whether his cigarette was alight or not.

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  1. noun A small roll of finely cut tobacco for smoking, enclosed in a wrapper of thin paper.
  2. noun A similar roll of another substance, such as a tobacco substitute or marijuana.

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  • He lights a thin Italian cigarette and asks, "Why Don't ask me why." —  The Informers
  • As usual the cigarette was an extension of the costume. —  deer leap.htm
  • You think, Christ, the way she lights a cigarette is the right way, the restaurants she picks are the right restaurants, the way she fakes an orgasm — pardon my French — is the right way so I must be doing something wrong. —  Mistress of Justice
  • The Rector would walk up and down, occasionally taking a book from his crowded shelves, while Mr. By water and Mrs. Pattison smoked, with the after-luncheon coffee—and in those days a woman with a cigarette was a rarity in England—and sometimes, at a caustic mot of the former's there would break out the Rector's cackling laugh, which was ugly, no doubt, but, when he was amused and at ease, extraordinarily full of mirth. —  Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume I
  • The British had learned about the cigarette from the Russians during the Crimean War. —  EQMM, May2006
 

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  1. French, diminutive of cigare, cigar, from Spanish cigarro; see cigar.

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  1. from French cigarette, diminutive of cigare, a cigar.
 

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