cigaretted

English

Etymology

From cigarette + -ed.

Adjective

cigaretted (not comparable)

  1. Holding or equipped with cigarette(s).
    • 1898, The Cornell Magazine, page 268:
      A cigaretted boy and two men with pipes had looked him over, an hour back.
    • 1909, The Lady’s Realm, page 21:
      In time they will join—it’s their anxious ambition—a bevy similar to that now waiting at the stage entrance of the “Alhambra” with their cigaretted “boys.”
    • 1916, The Railway Conductor, volume XXXIII, page 629:
      One by one Gilmer Meriwether, the boyish camera man; “Reddy” Prince, the loquacious head of the animal farm; the chattering girls and the cigaretted boys; the camels; even the tiger, whom age had pushed into the movies—all resolved themselves into beings unsubstantial as sea wraiths—and were gone.
    • 1919 November, Anne Douglas Sedgwick, “Christmas Roses”, in The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume CXXIV, number 5, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: The Atlantic Monthly Company; Concord, N.H.: The Rumford Press, section I, page 677, column 1:
      Mrs. Delafield had traveled up to town several times in this emergency, and had even accompanied Rhoda to the studio, where a young lady with bare legs and feet was dancing, with more concentration than spontaneity, before a cigaretted audience.
    • 1999, Izaak Mansk, “Ariadne”, in Emil Brut, Calgary, Alta.: Bayeux Arts, Inc., →ISBN, section II, pages 198–199:
      Until one afternoon, feeling utterly despondent, and sitting in the window seat of a swank café, in a thoroughfare just off the main square, listlessly watching the people going by – same faces, same umbrellas – it was raining and sleeting – and satiated with enough coffee till I felt like Brazil, and turning listlessly about every now and then to look at the cigaretted women with their cool lip-sticked mouths, boredly listening to their boring male escorts, or boredly inhaling and boredly expelling, smoke, I mean, or jingling their gold bracelets with charms attached on their thin sun-tanned wrists, with elbows on table and cig-holders at eye-level []
    • 2008, Ibi Kaslik, The Angel Riots, Penguin Canada, →ISBN, page 229:
      They crane their cigaretted hands to their mouths in unison and share the same eerie glow of suffocated defeat.
    • 2014, Asher Lee, Tsuki no Kage: Shadow of the Moon, Sakura Yume Books, →ISBN, page 204:
      Natsu gave her an inquisitive look, tapping his temple with a cigaretted hand []
    • 2020, Matson Taylor, The Miseducation of Evie Epworth, Scribner, published 2021, →ISBN:
      There's no sign of Caroline in the kitchen so I follow the music through into the sitting room, which is where I find her, tapping a cigaretted hand to the beat, curled up on the sofa with Sadie.

Verb

cigaretted

  1. simple past and past participle of cigarette
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