tobacconist
Americannoun
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tobacconists
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noun
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Origin of tobacconist
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Historian Kenneth Milano has traced Shiffler’s lineage to a tobacconist father and a mother whose family built ships and wharves, but we know little about his early life.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2021
Max Nesterak, a reporter at the Minnesota Reformer, interviewed a group of armed men outside a tobacconist who said they agree with the protests but not the looting.
From Fox News ● May 28, 2020
Given his freedom, Brown had the house built for himself in the 1770s and lived there as a prosperous tobacconist and apothecary until his death.
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2018
Carol Dugan works at JM Edwards tobacconist, opened by the late Tony Edwards in 1952.
From BBC ● May 18, 2017
On the sidewalk across the way the tobacconist brought out a chair, set it in front of his door, and straddled it, resting his arms on the back.
From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus
Some sectors actually recorded growth, with tobacconists, coffee shops and beauty salons increasing in number.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2017
Claims dating back to the summer piled up from peeved brewers, printers and tobacconists.
From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2016
Penguin was to be the peoples' publisher: their books read by those attending the universities of life and Oxbridge; available in bookshops and tobacconists.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2011
The most fervent denunciations of all have come from some of the town's six tobacconists, whose sales have dropped as much as 30%.
From Time Magazine Archive
There are hotels, bookshops, sweet-shops, tobacconists, jewellers, butchers, restaurants with tables ready spread, and the lottery offices are open.
From Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions by Henry Festing Jones
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