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  • n  a retail dealer in tobacco and tobacco-related articles
  • n  a shop that sells pipes and pipe tobacco and cigars and cigarettes

  • Originally a tobacconist, he founded in 1896, with his brother Charles and two other Frenchmen, Pathe Freres (the crowing rooster), which produced early newsreels, Pearl White's .
  • Cheated by the friend, jilted by the tobacconist's daughter, Blettsworthy's disillusion affected him so desperately that his kindly solicitor-guardian prescribed the traditional .
  • A Manhattan tobacconist displayed a selection of women's pipes and four men in Philadelphia were arrested for breaking into a greenhouse and stealing 2,000 Mother's Day carnations.
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  • Laurence Fox in Times Online
    Maybe we just look royal,Fox says. "We've got posh voices, but in the posh stakes we're at the bottom. My great-grandfather was a Jersey tobacconist and my great-grandmother was a showgirl."

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