Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pocket-case for holding cigars.
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Examples
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“I beg your pardon, sir,” Brown said, as he handed me my cigar-case, “but Mr. Harmmed has asked to see you before you go out.”
THE DREAM OF DEBS 2010
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My amazement reached its culmination when, at the conclusion of his speech, he produced a cigar-case full of cigars and offered it round.
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His very visiting-cards, his cigar-case, and the handle of his cane took slightly oblique inclinations. —
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Without waiting for an answer, he drew a cigar-case from his pocket, opened it, and held it out to Lucien.
Eve and David 2007
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Without waiting for an answer, he drew a cigar-case from his pocket, opened it, and held it out to Lucien.
Eve and David 2007
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I searched the pockets, finding a silver cigar-case in one pocket, containing two slim, brown cigarillos, and a matching silver wind-proof lighter.
The Beekeeper's Apprentice King, Laurie R. 2006
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And he slowly drew out a fine cigar-case, picked one to his taste, lit it, took a book from the shelf convenient to his hand, then leaning back, proceeded to smoke and read as tranquilly as if he had been in his own room, in Grove-street, X — - shire, England.
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On reaching his favourite seat he found he had left his cigar-case behind him; he immediately returned for it.
Two on a Tower 2006
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The trousers held a little penknife and some silver, and the side pocket of his jacket contained an old crocodile-skin cigar-case.
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In a spasm of righteousness he flung his cigar-case out of the smoking-compartment window.
Babbit 2004
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