Definition of Cigarillo

1. Noun. Small cigar or cigarette wrapped in tobacco instead of paper.

Generic synonyms: Cigar

Definition of Cigarillo

1. Noun. A thin cigar, differing from a cigarette in being wrapped with tobacco leaves rather than paper ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cigarillo

1. [n -RILLOS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cigarillo

cigarette-paper scars
cigarette burn
cigarette card
cigarette case
cigarette drain
cigarette holder
cigarette lighter
cigarette pants
cigarette paper
cigarette smoker
cigaretteless
cigarettelike
cigarettes
cigarfish
cigarillo (current term)
cigarilloes
cigarillos
cigarless
cigarlike
cigarmaker
cigarmakers
cigarmaking
cigars
ciggie
ciggies
ciggy
cigs
ciguatera
ciguateras

Literary usage of Cigarillo

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Untrodden Spain, and Her Black Country: Being Sketches of the Life and by Hugh James Rose (1875)
"With the Spaniards the cigarillo covers all difficulties. Are you dull and sad ? ... light the cigarillo, both of you, and you arc friends at once! ..."

2. Untrodden Spain, and Her Black Country: Being Sketches of the Life and by Hugh James Rose (1875)
"With the Spaniards the cigarillo covers all difficulties. ... light the cigarillo, both of you, and you are friends at once! The cigarillo, or paper ..."

3. Cigars: Health Effects and Trends by Donald Shopland (1998)
"If previous and current smoking habits are both included, the OR associated with cigar/cigarillo smoking becomes 1.4 (0.9-2.2) for men and 3.3 (1.3-8.5) for ..."

4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1874)
"... his casino, or his friend's casa, smoking the inevitable cigarillo, and .chatting,. or making a bargain. But there is absolutely no reading of any sort, ..."

5. Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art, and National by John Walter Osborne (1854)
"Having carefully extracted a leaf, he placed on it a pinch of tobacco, and neatly rolled up a cigarillo, which he smoked apparently with as much relish as ..."

6. Spanish Life in Town and Country by L. Higgin, Eugène E. Street (1902)
"The Spaniard who has a novia, a guitar, a cigarillo, and the knowledge that he has enough to pay for a seat at the bull-fight, possesses all that he can ..."

7. Captain Canot, Or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver: Being an Account of by Theodore Canot, Brantz Mayer (1854)
"Take my advice,— calm yourself, light a cigarillo, drink a tumbler of claret, ... exclaimed Don Rafael, " I will neither light a cigarillo, drink claret, ..."

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