Crossword clues for tobacconist
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tobacconist \To*bac"co*nist\, n.
A dealer in tobacco; also, a manufacturer of tobacco.
A smoker of tobacco. [Obs.]
--Sylvester.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"dealer in tobacco," 1650s, from tobacco + -ist + abnormal inserted consonant; earlier meaning was "person addicted to tobacco" (1590s).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who sells tobacco, cigarettes, cigars, snuff and sundry items. 2 A tobacconist's shop. 3 (context dated English) A person who is addicted to smoking tobacco.
WordNet
n. a retail dealer in tobacco and tobacco-related articles
a shop that sells pipes and pipe tobacco and cigars and cigarettes [syn: tobacco shop, tobacconist shop]
Wikipedia
A tobacconist, also called a tobacco shop or smoke shop is a retailer of tobacco products in various forms and the related accoutrements, such as pipes, lighters, matches, pipe cleaners, pipe tampers. More specialized retailers may sell ashtrays, humidification devices, hygrometers, humidors, cigar cutters, and more. Books and magazines, especially ones related to tobacco are commonly offered. Items irrelevant to tobacco such as puzzles, games, figurines, hip flasks, canes or other walking sticks, and candy are sometimes sold. In the USA, a tobacconist shop is traditionally represented by a wooden Indian positioned nearby. Most retailers of tobacco sell other types of product; today supermarkets, in many countries with a special counter, are usually the main sellers of the common brands of cigarette. In the United Kingdom, a common combination in small shops has been a newsagent selling newspapers and magazines, as well as confectionery and tobacco. In UK retailing this sector is known as "CONTOB" ("confectionery and tobacco").
Usage examples of "tobacconist".
Tobacconist Shop, trying to find a smokeable blend in these days before humidification and latakia, and he was slowly becoming aware of the conversation going on next to him.
The tobacconist thought that he recognized him as the man who had that very morning passed a bad halffranc piece off on him, and the ironmonger declared that he was the murderer of Widow Malet, whom the police had been looking for for six months.
Tobacconist against which newsboards leaned and told of a dreadful catastrophe in New York.
And he owes money to God and all His saintsto every shirtmaker and tobacconist and hat maker in town.
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.
Some tobacconists consider that the amount of tobacco smoked has increased by forty per cent since the war.
There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building depot.
On the way we passed the avenue's empty shops, where haberdashers and tobacconists, watchmakers and smiths, joiners and cobblers and ostlers plied their trades long before our grandparents were born.
A notary public is a respected tobacconist, innkeeper, or whatever, licensed by the county to witness and seal documents to prove he witnessed somebody swearing to him their words were true.
They would be sold at a tobacco shop in Cheyenne, and there are two tobacconists who sell them in Denver.
At noon, Robert wandered into a small tobacconist shop, where dozens of personal messages were tacked to a board.
He talked to a girl in a tobacconist shop, a professional guide, a taxi-man, several barmen and quite a number of people who were having drinks in bars, and by the end of the day he was beginning to think that he had drawn too black a picture of the situation through having mixed entirely with pro-Nazis during his stay in Oslo.