Crossword clues for cheroot
cheroot
- Smoke from revolutionary base
- Revolutionary source for a cigar
- Revolutionary part of plant used in cigar
- Heart-throb in bed generates smoke
- Dashing fellow's got in bed for a smoke
- Humidor item
- Cigar with square-cut ends
- Sort of cigar
- Square-ended cigar
- Non-tapered cigar
- Cigar with open, untapered ends
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cheroot \Che*root"\ (ch[-e]*r[=oo]t"; 277), n. [Tamil shuru[.t][.t]u, prop., a roll.] A kind of cigar, originally brought from Manila, in the Philippine Islands; now often made of inferior or adulterated tobacco.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 17c., probably from Portuguese charuto "cigar," from Tamil curuttu "roll" (of tobacco), from curul "to roll." Originally a cigar from southern India; later a cigar of a certain shape.
Wiktionary
n. A cigar with square-cut end
WordNet
n. a cigar with both ends cut flat
Wikipedia
The cheroot is a cylindrical cigar with both ends clipped during manufacture. Since cheroots do not taper, they are inexpensive to roll mechanically, and their low cost makes them popular.
The word cheroot comes from French cheroute, from Tamil curuttu/churuttu/shuruttu (சுருட்டு)- roll of tobacco. This word could have been absorbed into the French language from Tamil during the 18th century, when the French were trying to stamp their presence in South India. The word could have then been absorbed into English from French.
Usage examples of "cheroot".
From the province of Cagayan, where the greater part of it is grown, the best quality comes, and that leaf, being much stronger than any grown elsewhere, is generally used as the envelope to wrap round the inferior descriptions of tobacco employed in the manufacture of cheroots.
When they walked in on him, Hazelwood had adopted a typical Churchillian posture, gazing across the river at the Houses of Parliament, hands clasped behind him, a Burma cheroot in one corner of his mouth.
Trey long to purchase the flour and sugar, adding to his order some chewing tobbaco for Jiggers and a box of cheroots for his friend Matt Carlton.
Then, after checking the window-shielding and activating the outside view-screens, he lit a cheroot and sat down at the desk, his goblet and his needier in front of him, to wait until the servants were gone.
He reached for two cheroots, gave one to Boatwright, and shared a match with the man.
With the wires down in all directions, Longarm felt no pressing need to identify himself as he stocked up on some cheroots instead.
As he stepped out on the walk, pausing to light one of the cheroots, the man in black called Wesley Jones caught up with him.
Longarm assured him, pulling out a pair of cheroots and offering one to Lewis, who declined the invitation.
He handed one to Duncan, then he sat down and lifted the lid off a box on the table beside him, removing one of the thin cheroots that were made especially for him by a London tobacconist.
Gareth selected two cheroots from his case, lit them both, and passed one up to Jake.
When he had finished eating she gave him one of my cheroots and he sat smoking and staring across the river.
I had pressed cheroots upon them they began to laugh and clap our shoulders, expressing their own pleasure at our arrival.
But after I had tossed down a small packet of cheroots they were happy to trade fish and information.
Just yesterday, the last of the parcels had been called for and carted off by the international movers who, after all, had turned out to be Americans hired by the State Department and not louche, cheroot puffing vase-shattering Frenchmen as Lily had feared they might be.
Gareth Swales remarked lightly, his handsome noble features lit by the glow of the cheroot between his teeth as he lolled against the cushions of the ricksha.