| 释义 |
Gitane|ʒitan|
[Fr. gitane gipsy woman.]
A cigarette of a proprietary French brand. Also attrib.
1933Trade Marks Jrnl. 6 Sept. 1095 Gitanes. Cigarettes. Service d'Exploitation Industrielle des Tabacs... Paris. 1937Tobacco World Ann. 1 (Advt.), Cigarettes: Elegantes, Gauloises, Celtique, Gitanes. 1961E. Hyams tr. Crespi's Cigarette i. 8 A certain way of offering a packet of cigarettes to a departmental head—filter-tip Gitanes Bleues, or American cigarettes..may enable a man to raise his prices by from twenty to a hundred per cent. 1967V. Canning Python Project viii. 157 Blowing a cloud of Gitane smoke, he went on, ‘Your Prime Minister is not a wealthy man, is he?’ 1968N. Fleming Counter Paradise iv. 58 ‘Here, have a Gitane,’ he said, tossing the pack over to Jake. 1969S. Coulter Embassy xxi. 237 A thick-set man smoking a yellow-paper Gitane cigarette. |