cigarillo [sig-uh-ril-oh] ExamplesWord Origin noun, plural cig·a·ril·los.
- a small, thin cigar.
- a cigarette with a wrapping of tobacco instead of paper.
Origin of cigarillo 1825–35; Spanish, diminutive of cigarro cigar Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for cigarillo Historical Examples of cigarillo
Food is always of secondary importance: he ranks it after his novia, after his cigarillo, after the bulls.
Spanish Life in Town and Country
L. Higgin and Eugne E. Street
In the Cigarillo manufactory about 2000 workmen find employment.
Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II
Karl Ritter von Scherzer
The men often sit with their hats on, and between the courses smoke a cigarette, or cigarillo in Spanish.
Vine and Olive; Or Young America in Spain and Portugal
Oliver Optic
So without speech he blew the end off his cigarillo and handed it courteously to the Carlist soldier.
S. R. Crockett
The cigarillo is smoked slowly, the last whiff being the bonne bouche, the breast, la pechuga.
Richard Ford
British Dictionary definitions for cigarillo cigarillo noun plural -los
- a small cigar often only slightly larger than a cigarette
Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for cigarillo n.
1829, from Spanish cigarillo, diminutive of cigarro (see cigar).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper