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Cigar

2 stages from Spanish to English.

Today it means a roll of cured tobacco leaves for smoking
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Stage 1 of 2
cigarro
Spanish · 1600s
"a rolled tobacco leaf for smoking"
possibly from a Mayan word for smoking tobacco leaves
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Stage 2 of 2
cigar
English · 1730s
"a roll of tobacco leaves for smoking"
settled as the English word for the rolled tobacco product
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