cigarette holder

American  

noun

1. a mouthpiece of plastic, ivory, etc., for holding a cigarette while it is being smoked.

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cigarette holder British  

noun

1. a mouthpiece of wood, ivory, etc, used for holding a cigarette while it is smoked

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Etymology

Origin of cigarette holder

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

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cigarette holder

Alexander then showed me a cigarette holder and a tobacco box he had decorated by taping portraits of President Putin to them.

From BBC ● May 13, 2023

In the 1997 film "Titanic," her Rose character smokes using a slender cigarette holder while in the elegant dress and surrounds of the luxury cruise liner.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2021

Though she never did much of anything, the princess appears in so many memoirs, a Zelig with bouffant hair sucking on a cigarette holder.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 1, 2018

It’s supplied by Audrey Hepburn, delicately holding a cigarette holder in that Breakfast at Tiffany’s way.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 5, 2015

Colonel Cathcart took the cigarette holder out of his mouthy stood it on end inside the pocket of his shirt, and began gnawing on the fingernails of both hands grievously.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller