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CHEROOT n.
A kind of cigar, originally brought from Mania, in the Philippine Islands; now often made of inferior or adulterated tabacco.
MANILA; MANILLA a.
illa, the capital of the Philippine Islands; made in, or exported from, that city. Manila cheroot or cigar, a cheroot or cigar made of tobacco grown in the Philippine Islands. -- Manila hemp, a fibrous material obtained from the Musa textilis, a plant allied to the banana, growing in the Philippine and other East Indi…