flue-cure
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of flue-cure
First recorded in 1905–10
Example Sentences
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The bulk of Zimbabwe’s flue-cured tobacco crop now comes from more than 100,000 small-scale Black farmers, many resettled on formerly white-owned farms.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2022
North Carolina is the No. 1 producer of flue-cured tobacco in the country.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 28, 2021
In the seven years following the start of the violent seizures in 2000, Zimbabwe’s world rank as an exporter of top- grade, or flue-cured, tobacco slipped to sixth from second.
From BusinessWeek ● Nov. 30, 2011
Then Britain's big Imperial Tobacco Co., which normally buys a third of the flue-cured crop, stepped out of the market.
From Time Magazine Archive
To cover their loans, farmers were automatically assessed 3 cents for every pound of flue-cured tobacco they marketed.
From Time Magazine Archive
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