cigar store

noun

1. a retail store specializing in tobacco products, as cigars and cigarettes.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cigar store¹

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50

Example Sentences

Wang and Auster quickly followed “Smoke” with “Blue in the Face,” an improvised tale which returned to the Brooklyn cigar store and again starred Keitel, along with appearances by everyone from Lou Reed to Lily Tomlin.

From Seattle Times

TEMPE, Ariz. — A cigar store Indian “princess” stands alone in a corner here at the Arizona State University Art Museum, gazing toward gallery walls, not the viewer.

From New York Times

Trump has continued to hammer DeSantis in recent weeks — using disparaging nicknames to describe his rival, pointing to polls showing the governor lagging behind him, and suggesting that DeSantis would be working in a law office, a cigar store or a pizza parlor if Trump had not endorsed him and helped boost his candidacy for governor in 2018.

From Washington Post

The ground floor of the little house was divided into multiple storefronts, which in the 20th century held a variety of mom-and-pop shops serving a working-class neighborhood known until the 1970s as Washington Market: a corner barbershop with a candy-striped pole, a cigar store, a liquor store, a travel agency and a footwear shop with a distinctive shoe-shaped sign suspended above West Broadway.

From Seattle Times

Its tone can be wry and sometimes even mildly Wodehousean — a cigar store is kept by a man named Freshmayer, “who looked upon the earth as a sterile promontory” — but occasionally ascends to the floridly Poesque: In “The Furnished Room” — which mixes a naturalist description of Manhattan rooming house life with a ghost story and conte cruel — a housekeeper resembles “an unwholesome, surfeited worm that had eaten its nut to a hollow shell and now sought to fill the vacancy with edible lodgers.”

From Washington Post