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panatela

panatela \panatela\, panatella \panatella\, panetella \panetella\(p[a^]n`[i^]*t[e^]l"l[.a]), n. A long slender cigar.

Syn: panetela.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
panatela

also panetela, panetella, type of thin cigar, 1901, from Spanish panatela, literally "sponge-cake" (in American Spanish, "a long, thin biscuit"), a diminutive, formed from Latin panis "bread" (see food).

Wiktionary
panatela

n. A long thin cigar.

WordNet
panatela

n. a long slender cigar [syn: panetela, panetella]

Usage examples of "panatela".

His yelp came too late, and with horror he watched her drop the fine, pale panatela into the open maw of the dump hole.

His repast ended, he settled back in his chair to light a panatela, just as Satsu, solemn of face, came in from the kitchen.

General Bronson puffed suspiciously, from behind a freshly lit panatela with General Nicholi closely flanking him on the left.

Having finished, Hans Hoffmann leaned back, selected a fine panatela from a humidor on the desk, and lit it from a rolled-gold Dupont.

Say there was the fat blonde in Saint Jo, and the panatela brunette at Skillet Ridge, and the gold tooth down in the Kaw valley.

He smiled faintly and patted the pockets of his floral shirt until he found a panatela and a match.

Milo lowered the window, lit up a panatela, and blew smoke out at the city.

Havana panatela, Cuban cigars being an occasional perk of CIA employment.

Drawing on his cigar, Planchini kept testing the aroma of the panatela as he stared into the thickening smoke.

Among the cigars that were being flourished at the nearest tables, Planchini saw only one of the thin panatela variety.

Puffing his panatela, Thaddeus Harmon serenely watched the indicated progress.

Joe would say, in his increasingly slang-deformed English, and then take from the breast pocket of his jacket a slim humidor filled with five fifteen-cent panatelas or, when the clerk was a woman, a folding paper fan patterned with pink flowers, or simply a pearly-cold bottle of Coca-Cola.

Spinelli lighting up one of his deadly black panatelas, followed by a coughing fit.

Then he produced three panatelas, handed one each to Sidney and Shapolnik and lit the other himself.

While the dick was busy, Gancy drew two panatelas from his pocket and offered one to Allard, who politely accepted it.