cigar store

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noun

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

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Origin of cigar store

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50

Here they are semi-touching at a grocery store; she likes kombucha.
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He was born in an apartment above the grocery store owned by his immigrant parents in South Jamaica, Queens.
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Along the way, Brinsley turned into a drug store, but it is not clear whether he bought anything.
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The people you work with, or see at your grocery store, or your church?
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It's nothing for someone to walk up to me in the store or at a restaurant and ask for an autograph or speak to me.
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The young men gathered round him and offered him a cigar, which he accepted and began to smoke.
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Young Lamb's big cigar has been out long ago; but he pulls hard at it, wholly unaware of the fact.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
This gives to the second volume something of the smell of an apple store-room.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, November 3, 1894|Various
The perspiration stands on young Lamb's face; again his cigar goes out.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
In this traffic he made money so fast that he opened an office, and subsequently a store of his own, in the Escolta.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman