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cigaret (US)

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Latin cicādader.

Vulgar Latin *cicār(r)a

Spanish cigarra?

Spanish cigarrobor.

French cigare

French -ette

French cigarettebor.

English cigarette

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Borrowed from French Category:English terms borrowed from French#CIGARETTE Category:English terms derived from French#CIGARETTE cigarette, from cigare, from Spanish Category:English terms derived from Spanish#CIGARETTE cigarro + diminutive suffix -ette. By surface analysis, cigar +‎ -etteCategory:English terms suffixed with -ette (diminutive)#CIGARETTE.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsɪ.ɡə.ɹɛt/, /sɪ.ɡəˈɹɛt/Category:English 3-syllable words#CIGARETTE Category:English 3-syllable words#CIGARETTE Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#CIGARETTE
Audio (US): (file)
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Rhymes: -ɛt Category:Rhymes:English/ɛt#CIGARETTE Category:Rhymes:English/ɛt/3 syllables#CIGARETTE
Hyphenation: cig‧a‧rette

Noun

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A small cigar consisting of tobacco or another substance, wrapped up in a thin roll with paper, intended for smoking.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:cigarette
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46:
  No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.
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- 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 7, in Crime out of Mind‎:
  He rose to light my cigarette, then sank back into his wicker chair contentedly. The tea was weak, but not cold, thanks to the hot-plate.
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- 1989 January 27, Stephen Fry et al., “Doctor Tobacco”, in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Season 1, Episode 3:
  Tobacconist: Right. I want to try you on a course of these: one twenty times a day. Have you taken them before?
  Patient: Um, what is it?
  Tobacconist: It's a simple nicotinal arsenous monoxid preparation taken bronchially as an infumation.
  Patient: Infumation?
  Tobacconist: Yes, you just light the end and breathe it.
  Patient: What, like cigarettes?
  Tobacconist: You know them then. Actually, it's a bit hard to admit but they're basically an herbal remedy... A leaf originally from the Americas, I believe, called tobacco.
  Patient: But medicated?
  Tobacconist: Medicated? No.
  Patient: These are ordinary cigarettes?
  Tobacconist: That's right.
  Patient: But they're terribly bad for you, aren't they?
  Tobacconist: I hardly think I would be prescribing them if they were bad for you.
  Patient: Twenty a day?
  Tobacconist: Yes, ideally moving on to about thirty or forty.
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- 2008, Thomas A. Liuzzo, One Last Cigarette: Memoirs of a 5-pack-a-day Smoker!, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 20:
  Grandma has an occasional cigarette, as well as Uncle Jimmy and Aunt Julie, and our kids give them crap about it.
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