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Maccaboy

Maccaboy \Mac"ca*boy\, Maccoboy \Mac"co*boy\, n. [From a district in the Island of Martinique where it is made: cf. F. macouba.] A kind of snuff.

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maccaboy

n. A type of rose-scented snuff.

Usage examples of "maccaboy".

Though his manners were somewhat boorish, he was always as neat as a new pin and he took his snuff in a lordly way, like a man who knows that his snuff-box is always likely to be filled with maccaboy, so that when Mme.