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humidor

[hyoo-mi-dawr or, often, yoo-]
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noun
  1. a container or storage room for cigars or other preparations of tobacco, fitted with means for keeping the tobacco suitably moist.
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Origin of humidor

First recorded in 1900–05; humid + -or2
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Examples from the Web for humidor

Historical Examples

  • 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
  1. a humid place or container for storing cigars, tobacco, etc
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Word Origin and History for humidor

n.

1903, from humid on model of cuspidor.

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