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cigarette holder en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A tube-like device that holds a cigarette or a cigarillo and through which the cigarette or the cigarillo is smoked (mainly to prevent ash from falling onto a smoker's clothes, and nicotine from staining the fingers or gloves, as well as to keep side-stream smoke further from the smoker's eyes).
   • He displayed the cigarette holder grandly on every occasion and had learned to manipulate it adroitly. Unwittingly, he had discovered deep within himself a fertile aptitude for smoking with a cigarette holder. 1961, Joseph Heller, Catch-22:
   • Cigarette holders were considered an essential part of women's fashion from the early to the mid-twentieth century and are sometimes of quite simple design; or they may be incredibly ornate, with gemstone or mother-of-pearl inlays. 2007, Rayner W. Hesse, Jewelrymaking Through History: An Encyclopedia, →ISBN, page 53:
   • The cigarette holder that uses a plastic cylinder filled with granules of silica reduced the nicotine content by 14 percent and the tar content by 21 percent. 1943, Health Yearbook 1954, →ISBN, page 145:

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Translations (22)

sh муштѝкла (a device used to hold a cigarette or a cigarillo) · tr ağızlık (a device used to hold a cigarette or a cigarillo) · it bocchino (a device used to hold a cigarette or a cigarillo) · hu szipka (a device used to hold a cigarette or a cigarillo) · nb munnstykke (a device used to hold a cigarette or a cigarillo) · sh muštìkla (a device used to hold a cigarette or a cigarillo) · mn соруул (a device used to hold a cigarette or a cigarillo) · es boquilla (a device used to hold a cigarette or a cigarillo) · fr fume-cigare (a device used to hold a cigarette or a cigarillo) · sh му̏ндштик (a device used to hold a cigarette or a cigarillo) · pl lufka (a device used to hold a cigarette or a cigarillo) · et pits (a device used to hold a cigarette or a cigarillo) · pl fifka (a device used to hold a cigarette or a cigarillo) · tk müşdük (a device used to hold a cigarette or a cigarillo) · ru мундшту́к (a device used to hold a cigarette or a cigarillo) · pl cygarniczka (a device used to hold a cigarette or a cigarillo) · fi imuke (a device used to hold a cigarette or a cigarillo) · sv cigarettmunstycke (a device used to hold a cigarette or a cigarillo) · sh mȕndštik (a device used to hold a cigarette or a cigarillo) · fr fume-cigarette (a device used to hold a cigarette or a cigarillo) · de Zigarettenspitze (a device used to hold a cigarette or a cigarillo) · nn munnstykke (a device used to hold a cigarette or a cigarillo)