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Definition of Tobacco shop
1. Noun. A shop that sells pipes and pipe tobacco and cigars and cigarettes.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tobacco Shop
Literary usage of Tobacco shop
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tobacco: Its History and Associations; Including an Account of the Plant and by Frederick William Fairholt (1876)
"The spendthrift Folly-wit, in Middleton's play, A Mad World, my Masters (1608),
speaks of the tavern and tobacco-shop as consequences, " to sink down dead ..."
2. The Nassau Literary Magazine by Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1890)
"I am trying to hook on to a tobacco shop, for there's nothing better. Those at
home must be fed. I can't sketch any more, I can't write any more. ..."
3. The Bookman (1909)
"bench in the little tobacco shop and sat at home waiting in vain for a summons
to the Bavarian Court; that Vjera, the Russian girl who sold her hair to pay ..."
4. Some American Story Tellers by Frederic Taber Cooper (1911)
"... just as in the story, left his work-bench in the little tobacco shop and sat
at home waiting in vain for a summons to the Bavarian Court; that Vjera, ..."
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