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cheroot|ʃɪˈruːt, tʃ-|
Forms: 8 cherute, chiroot, sharute, 8–9 sharoot, 8– cheroot.
[ad. F. cheroute, representing the Tamil name shuruṭṭu roll (sc. of tobacco). An Eng. phonetic form sharoot was frequent c 1800.]
A cigar made in Southern India or Manilla. This sort being truncated at both ends, the name was extended to all cigars with the two extremities cut off square, as distinguished from the ordinary cigar, which has one end pointed.
1669–79T. B. Asia fol. 46 (MS. in possession of Col. S. L. Howard, Dorset) The Poore Sort of Inhabitants vizt y⊇ Gentues, Mallabars, etc., Smoke theire tobacco after a very meane, but I judge Original manner, Onely y⊇ leafed rowled up, and light one end, holdinge y⊇ other between their lips..this is called a bunko, and by y⊇ Portugal's a Cheroota. 1759in Long Rec. Bengal (1870) 194 (Y.) 60 lbs. of Masulipatam cheroots. 1781India Gaz. 24 Feb. (Y.) Chewing Beetle and smoking Cherutes. 1800Month. Mag. VIII. 727 One hand moves to and fro the warm sharute. 1807Ann. Rev. V. 267 He who wants to purchase a segar in the East, must ask for a sharoot. 1839Marryat Phant. Ship xxxii, Their Manilla cheroots. a1847Mrs. Sherwood Lady of Manor V. xxxi. 248 Monsieur withdrew to smoke his cherout. 1859Fairholt Tobacco (1876) 219 Cheroots are peculiar in their manufacture, not made by hand but wound on a wire, both ends being cut flat. |