cigar store

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

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What does “clement” mean?

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50

Otherwise he paid no more attention to her than if she had been a sign in front of a cigar-store.
Gabriel Tolliver|Joel Chandler Harris
Well, it is better to try it and fail than to stand there like a cigar-store Indian and offer fool suggestions!
Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures|Edgar Franklin
Well, then, about this time o' day you'll find him in that cigar-store with the sign out—below there.
Sonnie-Boy's People|James B. Connolly
"Bright and lively as a cigar-store Indian," he heard one care-free youth exclaim as he went by him.
In Old Kentucky|Edward Marshall and Charles T. Dazey

Observing an empty chair on the sidewalk in front of Jackson's cigar-store, Mr. Crow directed his slowing footsteps toward it.
Anderson Crow, Detective|George Barr McCutcheon