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Cheroot

2 stages from Tamil to English.

Today it means a cigar with both ends cut flat, without a tapered end
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Stage 1 of 2
curuttu
Tamil · medieval
"a roll"
literally "a roll", describing the rolled tobacco leaf
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Stage 2 of 2
cheroot
English · 1600s-1700s
"a cigar with both ends cut flat"
adopted through British colonial contact in South India
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