cavendish
See also: Cavendish
English
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Etymology
Possibly from the name of the original manufacturer.
Noun
cavendish (uncountable)
- Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.
- 1901, Charles Kingsley, Two Years Ago, Volume I:
- No man less; only he (not Vieuxbois, but his younger brother) has found a wide-awake cooler than an iron kettle, and travels by rail when he is at home; and when he was in the Crimea, rode a shaggy pony, and smoked cavendish all through the battle of Inkermann." "
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