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cigarette holder

noun

  1. a mouthpiece of plastic, ivory, etc., for holding a cigarette while it is being smoked.


cigarette holder

noun

  1. a mouthpiece of wood, ivory, etc, used for holding a cigarette while it is smoked


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cigarette holder1

First recorded in 1920–25

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Example Sentences

Her fabulous car, her cigarette holder, her long red gloves — as a child, I longed to have a rotary phone to dial with the cigarette holder, just like Cruella does in Disney’s 1961 animated film One Hundred and One Dalmatians.

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FDR gives an avuncular grin around his famous cigarette holder to Andrew Jackson.

As he sipped a drink, he pulled out what looked to be a cross between a pen and a cigarette holder, and he took a puff.

It was timeless, that wacky, tacky character she created; the cigarette holder was genius, paradoxically regal.

FDR was cheered as a champion of the little guy, says Corallo, and “he was who he was: this aristocrat with a cigarette holder!”

The Brachyderes has a massive proboscis, cut off short; the Balaninus seems to be smoking an insanely long cigarette-holder.

M. Claretie presents a cigarette-holder and feels a hand which tries to seize it, but he resists and will not let it go.

My cigarette-holder was grasped by a very strong hand, which wrenched the object from me with a good deal of energy.

Patricia returned her greeting gayly; Merle removed a shining cigarette holder of remarkable length and bowed, but did not smile.

"Maybe there are burglars," Blount said, pointing with his cigarette-holder to Harrington's threatened king.

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