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单词 cheroot
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cherootn.

/(t)ʃɪˈruːt/
Forms: 1700s cherute, chiroot, sharute, 1700s–1800s sharoot, 1800s sheroot, 1700s– cheroot.
Etymology: < French cheroute, representing the Tamil name shuruṭṭu roll (sc. of tobacco). An English phonetic form sharoot was frequent c1800.
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.
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cheroot1669
1669–79 T. B. Asia (MS. in possession of Col. S. L. Howard, Dorset) f. 46 The Poore Sort of Inhabitants vizt ye Gentues, Mallabars, etc., Smoke theire tobacco after a very meane, but I judge Original manner, Onely ye leafed rowled up, and light one end, holdinge ye other between their lips..this is called a bunko, and by ye Portugal's a Cheroota.
1759 in Long Rec. Bengal (1870) 194 60 lbs. of Masulipatam cheroots.
1781 India Gaz. 24 Feb. Chewing Beetle and smoking Cherutes.
1800 Monthly Mag. 8 727 One hand moves to and fro the warm sharute.
1807 Ann. Rev. 5 267 He who wants to purchase a segar in the East, must ask for a sharoot.
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well II. ii. 52 I will light my sheroot.
1829 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor VII. xxxi. 113 Monsieur went into the kitchen, to smoke a cherout.
1839 F. Marryat Phantom Ship III. xxxii. 73 Their Manilla cheroots.
1859 F. W. Fairholt Tobacco iv. 218 Cheroots are peculiar in their manufacture, not made by hand but wound on a wire, both ends being cut flat.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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