Havanan.
/həˈvanə/, U.S. /həˈvænə/, /həˈvɑnə/ a. (In full, Havana cigar): A cigar of a kind made at Havana or in Cuba. (Also applied to the tobacco of which these are made.)
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigar or cheroot > cigar > type of
Bermuda?a1641
Havana1802
regalia1819
long nine1821
short-six1831
loco-foco1835
Cuba1837
cabana1840
panatela1841
Habanero1845
pickwick1847
colorado maduro1851
colorado1854
colorado claro1854
maduro1854
Henry Clay1855
Trichinopoli chain1863
trichi1877
perfecto1884
claro1891
toby1894
twofera1911
Jamaican1919
1711 Advt. in Spectator (1868) 903 Barcelona, Havana, and Old Spanish Snuff.]
1802 Deb. Congr. U.S. 31 Mar. (1851) 229 The greater part of what we have imported came..in the shape of Havana cigars.
1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iv. iv. 228 A grilled bone, Havannahs, and Regent's punch.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xvi. 261 Having very fortunately about a couple of dozen of real Havannahs in my pocket.
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 426/2 Genuine (‘legitimas’) Havana cigars are such only as are made in the island; and the cigars made in Europe..from genuine Cuban tobacco are classed as ‘Havanas’.
1972 ‘A. York’ Expurgator iv. 69 They lunched..on ham..on real coffee and Havana cigars.
b. havana brown n. the shade of brown which is the colour of havana cigars.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [noun] > other browns
umberc1568
Spanish brown1660
earth colour1688
raw umber1702
iron brown1714
clove-brown1794
raw sienna1797
wood-brown1805
moorit1809
coffee1815
oak1815
burnt almond1850
Vandyke brown1850
Turk's head1853
catechu brown1860
oak brown1860
mummy brown1861
walnut-brown1865
Havana1873
havana brown1875
wax-brown1887
box1889
nutria1897
caramel1909
wallflower brown1913
cigar1923
desert-brown1923
sunburn1923
tobacco1923
maple1926
butterscotch1927
walnut1934
snuff1951
mink1955
toffee1960
sludge1962
earth-tone1973
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 189 Havanna brown.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 778 Habana brown, this name has been given to aniline-brown.
1896 Daily News 11 June 3/6 Floral design upon a ground of havana-brown.
c. elliptical for havana brown n. at sense b.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [noun] > other browns
umberc1568
Spanish brown1660
earth colour1688
raw umber1702
iron brown1714
clove-brown1794
raw sienna1797
wood-brown1805
moorit1809
coffee1815
oak1815
burnt almond1850
Vandyke brown1850
Turk's head1853
catechu brown1860
oak brown1860
mummy brown1861
walnut-brown1865
Havana1873
havana brown1875
wax-brown1887
box1889
nutria1897
caramel1909
wallflower brown1913
cigar1923
desert-brown1923
sunburn1923
tobacco1923
maple1926
butterscotch1927
walnut1934
snuff1951
mink1955
toffee1960
sludge1962
earth-tone1973
1873 Young Englishwoman July 338/1 Two shades of brown—Havana and maroon.
1922 Daily Mail 12 Dec. 7 In delightful shades of Saxe, Heliotrope, Dove Grey, or Havana.
1967 N. Freeling Strike Out 27 A large complicated overcheck of fuchsia, havana and off-white.
d. Havana rabbit n. a variety of domesticated rabbit distinguished by its dark brown fur, bred near Utrecht about 1898, and kept for both fur and meat. Also elliptical.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Oryctolagus (rabbit) > breed or variety of (miscellaneous)
Andalusian1854
Belgian hare1867
chinchilla rabbit1904
Havana rabbit1912
New Zealand1917
Beveren1919
rex1928
satin1935
1912 G. A. Townsend Pract. Rabbit Keeping xx. 273 The Havana rabbit..was first introduced..into England in 1910... The originals, born in Holland, were obtained accidentally.
1953 W. K. Wilson Mod. Rabbit Husb. i. 14 Other fur breeds were imported, e.g. Champagnes and Havanas.
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