shop that sells tobacco products' name='description'> tobacconist's - definition and meaning

Definitions

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  • noun A shop that sells tobacco products

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Examples

  • But regardless, in my mind's eye, a sold-out game involves sad-faced ticket agents hanging a "SOLD OUT!" sign over their windows, while crowds of fans waiting in line throw down their fedoras in anger and instead retire to the neighborhood tobacconist's shop with their transistor radios.

    Redskins-Colts another FedEx Field sellout Dan Steinberg 2010

  • He had stopped by the tobacconist's early; on impulse, on the way back from the final errand of the day, he had the cabby stop there again.

    red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

  • Among his errands, he contrived to drop a message in a certain tobacconist's when he bought his own Cuban cigars.

    red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

  • In the background, a tobacconist's establishment occupies the corner of a building with a Nazi flag hanging ominously at its highest floor.

    Monroe Price: A Book by Its Cover: Judging Holocaust Memoirs By Appearance Only 2010

  • His father left school at 13 and worked in a tobacconist's in Chingford, and his mother at a draper's in Leyton.

    Derek Jacobi's King Lear: 'I've always felt slightly young for the role, but now I'm 72…' Carole Cadwalladr 2010

  • However, Hepatitis vowed not only to find the source of the Digestive Biscuit, he also planned to discover what had actually happened to Trailblazer, but only if he could pick up Trailblazer's original route and - therefore - locate that actual tobacconist's shop.

    The Great Age Of Exploration David Hadley 2009

  • Some years previously, another of the great Victorian explorers, Dysentery Trailblazer, had managed to trace the source of the Digestive Biscuit back to an area just inside present-day Zimbabwe before he mysteriously disappeared into a tobacconist's shop at the edge of a small jungle clearing.

    Archive 2009-03-01 David Hadley 2009

  • Some years previously, another of the great Victorian explorers, Dysentery Trailblazer, had managed to trace the source of the Digestive Biscuit back to an area just inside present-day Zimbabwe before he mysteriously disappeared into a tobacconist's shop at the edge of a small jungle clearing.

    The Great Age Of Exploration David Hadley 2009

  • However, Hepatitis vowed not only to find the source of the Digestive Biscuit, he also planned to discover what had actually happened to Trailblazer, but only if he could pick up Trailblazer's original route and - therefore - locate that actual tobacconist's shop.

    Archive 2009-03-01 David Hadley 2009

  • It's akin to a smoker losing the cigarette packet on which he has written the address of the tobacconist's.

    Impending heart attack kisobel 2004

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