cigared

adj

cigared

adj

Etymology From cigar + -ed.

1

Equipped with a cigar.

  • The lisping effeminacy, the melancholy jargon, the French and German foppery of the moustached and cigared race that the coffee-house life of the continent has propagated among us, would have found no favour in the eyes of this honest and high-principled king.1830, George Croly, “Birth of the Prince”, in The Life and Times of His Late Majesty, George the Fourth: with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons of the Last Fifty Years, London: James Duncan, […], page 13:
  • During all this time, the band played sweetly from the opera of Lucia de Lammermoor, and swarthy, moustached and cigared men, and gaudily-dressed and ill-walking ladies, promenaded round and round the walks, while their carriages waited outside the gates.1870, [Adeline M. Noble], “In the Tropics—First View of Havana—Entering the Bay—[…]”, in Rambles in Cuba, New York, N.Y.: Carleton, […]; London: S. Low, Son & Co., page 11:
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  • On the decks gorgeously cigared gentlemen puffed smoke into the smiling faces of lovely women, who coughed and sneezed gracious acknowledgments of the delicate attention.1881 November 24, Stanley Huntley (Brooklyn Eagle), “The Unfortunate Cruise of the “Union.””, in Wit and Wisdom, volume II, number 19 (whole 45), New York, N.Y.: Wurtele & Co., […], page 7:
  • […] by a gawking group of those fat-cigared plutocrats of the leather couches!1906, The Yale Courant, page 449:
  • He has become somebody, has a broader and more tolerant view of the one-time cartoon hayseed and the fat-cigared plutocrat.1923, Forbes, page 550:
  • She came back and painted a picture of a pudgy, cross-kneed, half-bald, fat-cigared man on the edge of his chair.1939 September 30, Ernie Pyle, “Rambling Reporter”, in The Pittsburgh Press, volume 56, number 99, Pittsburgh, Pa., page 9:

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