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Corona2|kəˈrəʊnə|
Also corona.
[From the proprietary name La Corona (Sp.) the crown.]
A well-known brand of Havana cigar.
[1877Trade Marks Jrnl. 14 Nov. 1671 La Corona... Firm of Manuel Lopez and Company, Havana.] 1887Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 127 Havana Cigars..‘La Corona’..Aguilas Imperiales Corona. [1904Trade Marks Jrnl. 23 Nov. 1424 La Corona... Manufactured Tobacco. The Havana Cigar and Tobacco Factories, Limited.] 1912W. J. Locke Aristide Pujol viii, He found him smoking a large corona. 1915Morn. Post 16 Mar. 4, I..bought a thousand Corona Coronas an hour ago. 1919Wodehouse Damsel in Distress xxi, Over the old coronas we will discuss many things. 192119th Cent. May 767 The fur-coated Corona-puffing multi-millionaire. 1926M. Walsh Key above Door viii. 95, I was in the middle of a long corona when Lady Clunas rose to go. 1929Tobacco 1 Oct. 72/2 The H. Upman factory is continuing the exportation of large quantities of Havana cigars from the English market, principally in Corona et Petit Corona sizes of the H. Upman brand. 1964C. Hodder-Williams Main Experiment v. 49 Honiton peered penetratingly over the top of a large Corona at Sally, who had silently declined a cigarette. |