Noun

(en noun)

Tobacco, rolled and wrapped with an outer covering of tobacco leaves, intended to be smoked.

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*:Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth.

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, chapter=5, title= The China Governess , passage=A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed. ¶ ‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’ […] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’}}

Noun

(en noun)

(low murmuring sound as of a cat)

* 1895 , Jacob Mendes Da Costa, Medical diagnosis (page 294)

The first — called by Laennec, from its resemblance to the pur of a cat, the purring tremor — is nearly always indicative of a valvular lesion. The second is caused by the to-and-fro motion of a roughened pericardium.