claron.
/ˈklɑːrəʊ/ A light-coloured cigar.
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1891 Cigar & Tobacco World 12 Nov. 522/2 The lightest are called ‘Claro’; the next darker ‘Colorado Claro’.
1945 A. Huxley Time must have Stop (new ed.) vi. 63 He decided..to smoke one of those small Larranaga claros which had pleased him so much.
1964 C. Mackenzie My Life & Times III. 72 With colorado cigars being completely ousted by claros.
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