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Cigar vs Regalia - What's the difference?

cigar | regalia |

As nouns the difference between cigar and regalia

is that cigar is tobacco, rolled and wrapped with an outer covering of tobacco leaves, intended to be smoked while regalia is royal rights, prerogatives and privileges - actually enjoyed by any sovereign, regardless of his title (emperor, grand duke etcetera.

cigar

English

(wikipedia)

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.’}}

    Synonyms

    * stogie

    See also

    * cheroot * cigarette * cigarillo * pink cigar

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    regalia

    English

    Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • royal rights, prerogatives and privileges - actually enjoyed by any sovereign, regardless of his title (emperor, grand duke etcetera)
  • the emblems, symbols, or paraphernalia indicative of royalty or any other sovereign status; such as a crown, orb, sceptre, sword of justice
  • * '>citation
  • decorations or insignia indicative of an office or membership of an order or society; such as freemasonry
  • finery or magnificent dress
  • (obsolete) Sumptuous food; delicacies.
  • (Cotton)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A kind of large cigar of superior quality.
  • * 1840 , Isaac Butt, Irish Life (page 294)
  • I have taken care that there's both brandy and whiskey nicely stowed away in the barrack-room, with plenty of prime regalia cigars
  • * 1850 , United States. Congress, Congressional Edition: Volume 552 (page 868)
  • The quantity of regalias imported into northern ports is comparatively small.

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