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Cheroot

//ʃəˈɹuːt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A cigar with square-cut ends.

    "The lowest classes of Europeans, as also of the natives, and, indeed, most of the officers of country-ships, frequently smoke cheroots, exactly corresponding with the Spanish segar, though usually made rather more bulky. However fragrant the smokers themselves may consider cheroots, those who use hookahs, hold them to be not only vulgar, but intolerable!"

  2. 2
    a cigar with both ends cut flat wordnet

Etymology

Probably from Portuguese charuto (“cigar”), from Tamil சுருட்டு (curuṭṭu, “roll (of tobacco)”).

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