humidor

[hyoo-mi-dawr or, often, yoo-]

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noun

a container or storage room for cigars or other preparations of tobacco, fitted with means for keeping the tobacco suitably moist.

Origin of humidor

First recorded in 1900–05; humid + -or²

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Related Words for humidor

kettle, jar, pot, crate, packet, vessel, dish, storage, bowl, carton, jug, pail, utensil, vase, capsule, sack, pouch, box, tank, package

Examples from the Web for humidor

Historical Examples of humidor

Drawford selected a cigar from the humidor on his desk and offered one to Turnbull.
Dead Giveaway
Gordon Randall Garrett
Slowly I let the lift break, and lowered the humidor to his desk.
Modus Vivendi
Gordon Randall Garrett
“Every one to his own taste,” he observed as he called rather sharply to Tokudo to bring him his humidor.
The Prairie Child
Arthur Stringer
Lancaster got a cigar from the humidor and collapsed his long gaunt body across chair and hassock.
Security
Poul William Anderson
Parallel to background down stage, tea table with coffee service thereon; near it to right, smaller table, on it a humidor.
Moral
Ludwig Thoma

British Dictionary definitions for humidor

humidor

noun

a humid place or container for storing cigars, tobacco, etc

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Word Origin and History for humidor

1903, from humid on model of cuspidor.