cigar store
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cigar store
An Americanism dating back to 1840–50
Example Sentences
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On a single day in December 2015, Gary Jones, who resigned last month as president of the United Auto Workers, spent more than $13,000 of the union’s money at a cigar store in Arizona.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 26, 2019
Back in Tampa, a few blocks from where he lived, a street hustler had conducted rounds of Find the Lady outside a cigar store.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 25, 2019
One Adams image taken during the Depression shows a cigar store Indian outside a San Francisco tobacco shop.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 27, 2018
“He grabs you. Holds you. He puts his arm around you. Talks like people talk. It’s like talking to a guy at a restaurant or a bar or the cigar store I go to.”
From Washington Times ● Jan. 18, 2017
Then she had to go down to the candy store to get the Sunday paper; then to the cigar store to get Papa a nickel Corona.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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