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cigar store ExamplesWord Origin noun
- a retail store specializing in tobacco products, as cigars and cigarettes.
Origin of cigar store An Americanism dating back to 1840–50 Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for cigar store Historical Examples of cigar store
He is keeping a cigar-store in South Apia and is doing tolerably well.
Stanley Waterloo
He comes to the cigar-store door, and there steps in to watch.
The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
Various
Just before he reached the office Henry met John Richmond, and together they stepped into a cigar-store.
Opie Read
Now I wish you to stop at a cigar-store, and buy a stamp for my letter to your Aunt Isabella, and then we will drive on.
Mary F. Nixon-Roulet
Well, it is better to try it and fail than to stand there like a cigar-store Indian and offer fool suggestions!
Mr. Hawkins’ Humorous Adventures
Edgar Franklin
