cigar store
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cigar store
An Americanism dating back to 1840–50
Example Sentences
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On a single day in December 2015, Gary Jones, who resigned last month as president of the United Auto Workers, spent more than $13,000 of the union’s money at a cigar store in Arizona.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 26, 2019
Back in Tampa, a few blocks from where he lived, a street hustler had conducted rounds of Find the Lady outside a cigar store.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 25, 2019
It was a cigar store, and Frank Hess arranged for the owners to lease the triangle.
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2019
One Adams image taken during the Depression shows a cigar store Indian outside a San Francisco tobacco shop.
From Washington Post • Dec. 27, 2018
“Well, I’ll tell you like it happened. I can’t make nothing out of it. I’m in Kellogg’s cigar store and a fella come up to me. ‘
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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