cheroot
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of cheroot
First recorded in 1660–70, cheroot is from the Tamil word curuṭṭu roll (of tobacco)
Example Sentences
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You warm to him as he warms to the boy, but he plays the part too much like a spaghetti western cliché baddie, cheroot and all.
From BBC • Jan. 5, 2018
Dogs gambol, small children ask to be carried and that really is a cheroot a friend is lighting under the big oak that’s going to come down some night in a blow.
From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2017
There is a shot of him contesting a Masters during the 1940s, leaning up against a tree at Augusta, hair slicked back, a pencil-thin moustache, sucking leisurely on a cheroot as the world went by.
From The Guardian • Jan. 19, 2013
Juan Sebastian Veron stepped in to slide it down the right-hand side of a static wall, behind which Javier Zanetti was lurking like a film-noir cheroot sucker.
From The Guardian • Jan. 28, 2011
And Mr. Monday puffed on his cheroot, and told his bride-to-be that he would certainly consider it.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
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