cigar store

American  

noun

1. a retail store specializing in tobacco products, as cigars and cigarettes.

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Etymology

Origin of cigar store

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50

Example Sentences

Wang and Auster quickly followed “Smoke” with “Blue in the Face,” an improvised tale which returned to the Brooklyn cigar store and again starred Keitel, along with appearances by everyone from Lou Reed to Lily Tomlin.

From Seattle Times

The ground floor of the little house was divided into multiple storefronts, which in the 20th century held a variety of mom-and-pop shops serving a working-class neighborhood known until the 1970s as Washington Market: a corner barbershop with a candy-striped pole, a cigar store, a liquor store, a travel agency and a footwear shop with a distinctive shoe-shaped sign suspended above West Broadway.

From Seattle Times

Its tone can be wry and sometimes even mildly Wodehousean — a cigar store is kept by a man named Freshmayer, “who looked upon the earth as a sterile promontory” — but occasionally ascends to the floridly Poesque: In “The Furnished Room” — which mixes a naturalist description of Manhattan rooming house life with a ghost story and conte cruel — a housekeeper resembles “an unwholesome, surfeited worm that had eaten its nut to a hollow shell and now sought to fill the vacancy with edible lodgers.”

From Washington Post

It wasn’t just the facilities that the owners of the Capital Garage wanted to publicize — the 1,200 spaces; the built-in gas station, mechanic’s shop and carwash; the retail offerings, including a cigar store — it was the basic concept.

From Washington Post

He opened the cigar store after a career as a nuclear engineer.

From New York Times