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tobacconist

American  
[tuh-bak-uh-nist] / təˈbæk ə nɪst /

noun

tobacconists plural
  1. a dealer in tobacco, especially the owner of a store that sells pipe tobaccos, cigarettes, and cigars.


tobacconist British  
/ təˈbækənɪst /

noun

  1. a person or shop that sells tobacco, cigarettes, pipes, etc

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of tobacconist

1590–1600; tobacco + intrusive -n- + -ist

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She was standing behind the counter of her tobacconist shop in Borgo Pio, a quiet cobblestoned street lined with buildings in earthy tones and flower boxes near the Vatican.

From BBC Apr. 25, 2025

“I think she’s full of good ideas,” Cyrielle Bernard, a 19-year-old who lives in this picturesque Burgundy town, told me one afternoon last week, chatting in the tobacconist shop where she works.

From New York Times Apr. 22, 2022

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

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

They are all oldtime tobacconists, sure they can keep costs down low enough to profit on a small margin.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1861 the breaking out of the war affected the tobacco trade, and many of the tobacconists were obliged to sell or hire out their slaves.

From Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro by Culp, Daniel Wallace

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