cigar-store Indian
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cigar-store Indian
First recorded in 1925–30
Example Sentences
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In Mr. Smith’s house you’ll find more than two dozen antique weather vanes featuring sculpted animals, hundreds of miniature toy soldiers battling on the shelves and a cigar-store Indian.
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2019
The pig is a carved wooden sculpture that stands like a cigar-store Indian, perpetually waving, outside Rudy’s, on Ninth Avenue near 44th Street.
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2014
She began to buy American folk art early in the 20th century, starting with a cigar-store Indian.
From New York Times ● May 19, 2011
A tongue-in-cheek hillbilly ditty about a cigar-store Indian in love.
From Time Magazine Archive
That talk between the knight and the cigar-store Indian is yours, Nan; and the place where he finds the militia drilling and chases the colonel into the creek is yours, daddy!
From Otherwise Phyllis by Gibson, Charles Dana
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