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cigar-shaped en · ADJ
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Having a form that roughly resembles a cigar; long and cylindrical with tapering ends.
The Winans, cigar-shaped steamer, had been further tried at Baltimore.
1859 October 8, The Argus, Melbourne, page 1, column 4:"We were looking east through the rectory window at a rainbow when my wife spotted a grey, cigar-shaped object emerging from the rainstorm."
1965, James Holledge, Flying Saucers Over Australia, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 77:
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