cigared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cigar + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The lisping effeminacy, the melancholy jargon, the French and German foppery of the moustached and cigared race that the coffee-house life of the continent has propagated among us, would have found no favour in the eyes of this honest and high-principled king.
ref: 1830, George Croly, “Birth of the Prince”, in The Life and Times of His Late Majesty, George the Fourth: with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons of the Last Fifty Years, London: James Duncan, […], page 13:
text: During all this time, the band played sweetly from the opera of Lucia de Lammermoor, and swarthy, moustached and cigared men, and gaudily-dressed and ill-walking ladies, promenaded round and round the walks, while their carriages waited outside the gates.
ref: 1870, [Adeline M. Noble], “In the Tropics—First View of Havana—Entering the Bay—[…]”, in Rambles in Cuba, New York, N.Y.: Carleton, […]; London: S. Low, Son & Co., page 11:
text: On the decks gorgeously cigared gentlemen puffed smoke into the smiling faces of lovely women, who coughed and sneezed gracious acknowledgments of the delicate attention.
ref: 1881 November 24, Stanley Huntley (Brooklyn Eagle), “The Unfortunate Cruise of the “Union.””, in Wit and Wisdom, volume II, number 19 (whole 45), New York, N.Y.: Wurtele & Co., […], page 7:
text: […] by a gawking group of those fat-cigared plutocrats of the leather couches!
ref: 1906, The Yale Courant, page 449:
text: He has become somebody, has a broader and more tolerant view of the one-time cartoon hayseed and the fat-cigared plutocrat.
ref: 1923, Forbes, page 550:
text: She came back and painted a picture of a pudgy, cross-kneed, half-bald, fat-cigared man on the edge of his chair.
ref: 1939 September 30, Ernie Pyle, “Rambling Reporter”, in The Pittsburgh Press, volume 56, number 99, Pittsburgh, Pa., page 9:
text: The cigared gentleman in the picture to the right, gazing skyward, is John Vesey.
ref: 1949 March 21, Eldon Roark, “Strolling With Eldon Roark: Took Ten Years But He Finally Came Thru”, in Memphis Press-Scimitar, 69th year, number 125, Memphis, Tenn., page 9:
text: […] fat, cigared and bejewelled businessmen of all nationalities, in American cars, to whom the legality or morality of their livelihood is a matter of complete indifference so long as it pays; […]
ref: 1953, The Fortnightly, page 31:
text: I remember particularly one visit with my father to a textile mill where haggard, hollow-eyed women were grinding away their pathetic lives “to make the bogey” while a pot-bellied, gold-chained, fat-cigared owner — who could have come right out of a present-day communist cartoon of a “capitalist” — looked callously on.
ref: 1955, ISA Journal, Instrument Society of America, page 101:
text: […] his sisters Mathilde and Chardine, elegant in their rustling silks, with their fat, cigared, merchant husbands.
ref: 1960, William H. Jacobs, This Violent Land, Derby, Conn.: Monarch Books, page 13:
text: One of my last memories of the Gulf South is the sight, a day or two before I left it, of a fat, cigared, helmeted, booted, pistoled and clubbed guardian of the public peace standing sentinel on a Mobile street ready to spring valiantly into action should a colored child approach a schoolhouse.
ref: 1967, Ira B. Harkey, Jr., The Smell of Burning Crosses: An Autobiography of a Mississippi Newspaperman, Jacksonville, Ill.: Harris-Wolfe & Company, page 179:
text: One wall, covered with paintings of burly, cigared men and buxom, sun-glassed women, is a rainbow of pastels.
ref: 1981 May 15, Peggy Meill, “In School With Aidron Duckworth”, in Valley News, volume 28, number 286, page 15:
text: There were six races round the dirt track every afternoon, the finish line right in front of the splintery plank-and-shingle grandstand which would be filled with ladies in summer dresses and cigared gentlemen in straw hats, the dusty and ticket-littered standing-room in front crowded elbow-to-elbow with hot and sweaty strangers from who knew where who got most astonishingly excited as the nags galloped by, their hooves tossing damp lumps of dirt aloft.
ref: 1997 September 24, Richard Nunley, “Our Berkshires: ‘Meet me at the fair’”, in The Berkshire Eagle, Pittsfield, Mass., page A9:
text: Across the way cigared men whisper, giggle incoherently at the sight of dogs in heat.
ref: 2005, Lydia Melvin, South of Here, Western Michigan University, →ISBN, page 45:
text: Churchill was a fat cigared caricature in Burnfort, the war remembered as a shortage of tea, Tomeen’s triumphant bicycle ride with two pounds of it.
ref: 2021, Martina Evans, American Mules, Carcanet Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Equipped with a cigar.