tobacconist
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tobacconist
Example Sentences
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“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
I asked Angelo Bello, Pedro Bello’s grandson and fifth-generation tobacconist, how they get around selling Cuban cigars with the embargo.
From Washington Post • May 21, 2015
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
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