Wiktionary
n. 1 A box used for storing cigars. 2 (context juggling English) A square box usually made of wood or plastic used as a juggling prop.
WordNet
n. a box for holding cigars
Wikipedia
Cigar boxes are rectangular props used in juggling. Cigar box manipulation began as a vaudeville act in the United States between the 1880s and 1920s, and was popularized by W. C. Fields. Originally, performers would take actual boxes that cigars were stored in and nail them shut to create their juggling props. Today, cigar boxes for juggling are typically purpose-built, hollow wooden or plastic blocks with suede or foam rubber padding attached to the sides.
A cigar box is a box container for cigar packaging. Traditionally cigar boxes have been made of wood, cardboard or paper. Spanish cedar has been described as the "best" kind of wood for cigar boxes because of its beautiful grain, fine texture, and pleasant odor. Eucalyptus and yellow poplar have been popular substitutes that were sometimes stained and scented to resemble it. Other typical woods for cigar boxes include mahogany, elm, and white oak; less-popular are basswood, Circassian walnut, and rosewood.
There are several types of cigar boxes, differing both in construction and purpose. The following are common boxes:
- Cabinet selection, slid-lid or hinged lid, typically storing 25 or 50 cigars
- 8-9-8, round-sided box with three layers, counting 8, 9 and 8 cigars respectively.
- Flat top or 13-topper, two layers with 12 on bottom and 13 on top
- Boxes of box-pressed cigars, stored two layers with same number of cigars.
Cigar boxes, labels, and bands are considered a subject of art, with businesses specializing in them and books printed on their design, meaning, and significance. As a result, cigar boxes and their corresponding labels can be considered collectible items.
There is a growing movement of guitars and ukuleles being made from cigar boxes and other materials not usually used for musical instruments.
A cigar box is a box container for cigar packaging.
Cigar box may also refer to:
- Cigar box (juggling)
- Baker Bowl a.k.a. "The Cigar Box"
- Cigar Box method
- Cigar box guitar
Usage examples of "cigar box".
He reached absently into his cigar box and removed the folded bill.
And while hammers pounded and sawdust filled the air, Milton acquainted himself with the papers and deeds Lefty had haphazardly kept in a cigar box beneath the register.
Into my travelling bag I folded a few modest essentials atop the flagon and the cigar box, and into a pad of shirts nestled the black Lucite cube prepared at my request by my instructor-guides and containing, mingled with the ashes of the satchel and its contents, the few bony nuggets rescued from Green Chimneys.
General Taylor stood up and walked to his desk to retrieve a cigar box.
In a panelled study that resembled the interior of a cigar box, Clara was writing letters beneath the portrait of the house's owner, a railroad magnate, gone abroad.
He laid down the razor and pulled a cigar box from a desk drawer with his good hand, offering the box to the stranger.
You never could tell it had been a cigar box, it was that beauÂ.
Within was a wooden cigar box with a broken Montecristo seal of crossed swords.