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panetela

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pan⋅e⋅tel⋅la

  [pan-i-tel-uh]
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–noun
a long, slender cigar, usually with straight sides and tapering to a point at the closed end.
Also, pan⋅e⋅tel⋅a, panatella, panatela.

Origin:
1900–05; < AmerSp panetela, panatela a kind of bread, long, slender biscuit < It panatella, dim. of pane bread (< L pānis); see -elle
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pan·a·tel·a   (pān'ə-těl'ə)   
n.  A long slender cigar.

[Spanish, biscuit, cigar, from American Spanish, long thin biscuit, from Italian panatella, diminutive of panata, panada, from pane, bread, from Latin pānis; see pā- in Indo-European roots.]
pan·e·tel·a or pan·e·tel·la   (pān'ĭ-těl'ə)   
n.  Variants of panatela.
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