tobacco
noun
any of several plants belonging to the genus Nicotiana, of the nightshade family, especially one of those species, as N. tabacum, whose leaves are prepared for smoking or chewing or as snuff.
tobaccoless
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a word derived from
tobacco.
Example Sentences
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Suspicion, wheedling, indignation, and the haunting eyes of the tobaccoless have hounded the nation's cigaret retailers since the coming of the great famine.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Thinkin' of buyin' that 'ar gulf, buddy?" asked the captain, made sarcastic by his narrow escape from a tobaccoless voyage.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder
This one moment of triumph was worth all the long miserable winter with its butterless bread and tobaccoless pipes.
From Across the Years by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
"Thinkin' of buyin' that'ar gulf, buddy?" asked the captain, made sarcastic by his narrow escape from a tobaccoless voyage.
From Roads of Destiny by O. Henry
Some time after, the grasping man discovered that the pearl had been found in the "meat" of a "helmet" shell which had been roasted by a hungry and tobaccoless boy.
From Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
