panatela

[ pan-uh-tel-uh ]

noun

1. a long, slender cigar, usually with straight sides and tapering to a point at the closed end.

Word History and Origins

Origin of panatela¹

First recorded in 1900–05; from American Spanish panetela, panatela “a kind of bread; long, slender biscuit,” from Italian panatella, diminutive of pane “bread” (from Latin pānis ); -elle

Example Sentences

He had been smoking them since he was sixteen, and regularly, as many as a dozen a day—expensive panatelas, for the most part—since he was eighteen.

From Literature

Then he produced three panatelas, handed one each to Sidney and Shapolnik and lit the other himself.

From Project Gutenberg

The two lawyers had risen hastily when Chief Justice Pendarvis entered; he responded to their greetings and seated himself at his desk, reaching for the silver cigar box and taking out a panatela.

From Project Gutenberg