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maccoboy|ˈmækəbɔɪ|
Also 8 macabao, macauba, 9 maccaboy, maccubau, mac(c)ouba, mackabaw, Sc. macabaa, -baw, maccaba(w.
[Named from Macouba, a district in Martinique.]
A kind of snuff, usually scented with attar of roses.
1740Wimble's List of Snuffs in Fairholt Tobacco (1859) 269 Macabao. 1799Hull Advertiser 27 July 4/4 You are famous..For having the best Macauba [rime draw]. 18..G. Wushart in Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl. (1824) 223 Ye maun bring me a teat o' this same Macabaa. 1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 99 The snuff of Martinico, celebrated under the term ‘Macouba’. 1849Thackeray Pendennis II. ii. 14 [He] pocketted his snuff-box, not desirous that Madame Brack's dubious fingers should plunge too frequently into his Mackabaw. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Maccoboy, Maccubau, a kind of snuff. 1893Stevenson Catriona xix. 218 Him I found already at his desk and already bedabbled with maccabaw. 1896E. Marriage tr. Balzac's Old Goriot 21 His snuff-box is always likely to be filled with maccaboy. |