maduron.
/məˈdʊərəʊ/, U.S. /məˈdʊroʊ/ (a) The darkest of the grades of colour into which cigars are divided. (b) A dark-coloured cigar (also Maduro cigar).
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loco-foco1835
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colorado maduro1851
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1854 J. Sproule Irish Industr. Exhib. 1853 135 The names usually printed upon cigar-boxes, when they do not refer to the maker, express the degree of this colour, such as maduro, colorado, colorado claro, and amaryllo, which express the order of intensity.
1889 L. Friedlander Tobacconist (ed. 5) 28 M..Maduro—very dark brown.
1908 S. Ford Side-stepping with Shorty vii. 106 The spots of him that you could see..was the colour of a twenty-cent maduro cigar.
1939 C. Graves Cigars & Man 16 The two remaining darker shades, Colorado-Maduro and Maduro are seldom met with in England.
1957 C. Mackenzie Sublime Tobacco xiv. 240 ‘1 pound full Cabañas’... These may have been Maduro, the darkest of all, which are never seen to-day.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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