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cylinder tapering to a point at the end which is placed in the mouth, the other end, which is lighted, being usually cut square (see TonAcco). The See also:

SPANISH

Spanish cigarro is of doubtful origin, possibly connected with cigarra, a See also:

CICADA (Cicadidae)

cicada, from its resemblance to the See also:

BODY

body of that See also:

INSECT

insect, or with cigarral, a word of Arabic origin meaning a See also:

PLEASURE (through Fr. plaisir from Lat. placere, to please; Gr. rlbovii)

pleasure See also:

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

garden. The explanation that it comes from a Cuban word for a certain See also:

SPECIES

species of tobacco is probably erroneous, since no native word of the See also:

KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind is known. The diminutive, cigarette, denotes a See also:

roll of cut tobacco enclosed usually in thin See also:

paper, but sometimes also in tobacco-leaf or the husk of See also:

INDIAN

Indian See also:

corn.

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