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UK
/təbˈækənˌɪst/
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NOUN
- a retail dealer in tobacco and tobacco-related articles
- a shop that sells pipes and pipe tobacco and cigars and cigarettes
How To Use tobacconist In A Sentence
- Supermarkets can afford to retail cigarettes at a couple of cents below the price charged by most tobacconists.
- Fairly obviously, this indicates that one function of the shop is as a tobacconist, and such shops sell cigarettes et cetera.
- A robber went into a tobacconist in Auckland, New Zealand, and asked for cigarettes, and threw a $20 note on the counter so that the shopkeeper would open the till.
- The young George Soros would try to sell little knick-knacks to tobacconists - unsuccessfully, as he now recalls.
- But I don't think you would see British tobacconists flinging boxes of fags into street fires to defend their rights.
- They were in the tradition of colportage, hawked by street pedlars who entered bars and workshops, or sold by tobacconists, newsagents, or at railway kiosks.
- Still even there there were some young men about town, a sort of "jeunesse doré", not of 18-carat gold perhaps, but a "jeunesse" quite equal to the pleasant task of buzzing around the fair tobacconist. In Bohemia with Du Maurier The First Of A Series Of Reminiscences
- An aproned man in a tobacconist's window pressed his palms to the glass and looked skyward.
- Ending up in Syria, he settled down and quickly found work as a tobacconist, where he began experimenting with different cigarette compositions.
- So instead I go to a tobacconist that sells stamps across the road from where she buys her vegetables. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990