cheroot

Etymology
Probably from, from.

Noun

 * 1) A cigar with square-cut ends.
 * 2) * 1853, , Vol. II, The Analytical Sanitary Commission. Cigars and their Adulterations, pp. 444-445,
 * Purchased—of a Hawker, in Whitechapel-road. ¶ These cheroots were made up of two twisted wrappers or layers of thin brown paper, while the interior consisted entirely of hay, not a particle of tobacco entering into their composition. ¶ It appears that about the neighbourhood of Whitechapel, the sale of spurious cheroots of this kind constitutes a regular business.
 * 1) * 1892,, "Mandalay", in Rudyard Kipling's Verse, Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1922,
 * ’Er petticoat was yaller an’ ’er little cap was green, / An’ ’er name was Supi-yaw-lat—jes’ the same as Theebaw’s Queen, / An’ I seed her first a-smokin’ of a whackin’ white cheroot, / An’ a-wastin’ Christian kisses on an ’eathen idol’s foot:
 * 1) * 1986,, "The Unknown Soldier" in The Casualty, translated by , New York and London: W. Norton & Co., 1989, p. 97,
 * I had a long Virginia cheroot between my lips, it tasted deliciously bitter and mild, while in my back the goo of pus and blood and shreds of cloth and hand-grenade splinters went on simmering away.
 * 1) * 2012, Christopher Simon Sykes, : the Biography, 1937-1975. A Rake's Progress, Doubleday, Chapter Ten,
 * Hamilton offered to put them up and Hockney spent the time making a marvellous etching of him sitting in a chair holding a cheroot in his right hand.
 * I had a long Virginia cheroot between my lips, it tasted deliciously bitter and mild, while in my back the goo of pus and blood and shreds of cloth and hand-grenade splinters went on simmering away.
 * 1) * 2012, Christopher Simon Sykes, : the Biography, 1937-1975. A Rake's Progress, Doubleday, Chapter Ten,
 * Hamilton offered to put them up and Hockney spent the time making a marvellous etching of him sitting in a chair holding a cheroot in his right hand.

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Translations

 * Bengali:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 方頭雪茄煙
 * Czech: (s ořezanými konci)
 * Finnish:
 * French: cheroot,
 * Georgian:
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 * Indonesian:
 * Kannada: ಚುರುಟು
 * Macedonian:
 * Malayalam:
 * Nepali: चुरोट
 * Punjabi: ਚੁਰਟ
 * Russian: сига́ра (с обре́занными конца́ми), черу́т
 * Sinhalese: සුරුට්ටුව
 * Tamil:
 * Thai: บุหรี่พม่า