Cheroot

Quick meaning: Cheroot is a noun meaning A cigar with square-cut ends.

Meaning

A cigar with square-cut ends.

Example Sentences

It was after nine now, and the room, scented with the acrid smoke of Westfield's cheroot, was stifling hot.

In distinguished despair he lighted a cheroot, and for Aaron Gadd that was no trivial gesture. Both his father and Deacon Popplewood […] contended that smoke issuing from the mouth was a little too much like the flames of Tophet for sound Congregational practice.

2012, Christopher Simon Sykes, David Hockney: the Biography, 1937-1975. A Rake's Progress, Doubleday, Chapter Ten, Hamilton offered to put them up and Hockney spent the time making a marvellous etching of him sitting in a chair holding a cheroot in his right hand.

1986, Heinrich Böll, "The Unknown Soldier" in The Casualty, translated by Leila Vennewitz, New York and London: W. Norton & Co., 1989, p. 97, I had a long Virginia cheroot between my lips, it tasted deliciously bitter and mild, while in my back the goo of pus and blood and shreds of cloth and hand-grenade splinters went on simmering away.

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cigar, sheroot, cigarillo, foot, square, dog-end.

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