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Cigarette case   /sˌɪgərˈɛt keɪs/   Listen
Cigarette case

noun
1.
A small flat case for holding cigarettes; can be carried in a purse or a pocket.






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"Cigarette case" Quotes from Famous Books



... right," said Hurd, producing a dainty silver cigarette case, which was part of his "get-up." "Mrs. Krill is the widow of the murdered man, and the silly way in which the will has been made gives the five thousand a year to her daughter, whom Mrs. Krill ...
— The Opal Serpent • Fergus Hume

... did what she had not done in many years. She asserted her parental authority. Very lazily she put her feet to the ground, laid her fan, her handkerchief and her cigarette case together, and rose to her feet. Coming round the table she took the forbidden book out of Beatrice's hands, shut it up and put it back in its place. Beatrice made no opposition, but raised her broad eyebrows wearily and folded her ...
— The Children of the King • F. Marion Crawford

... Isle of Wight, Miss Wellington, neglecting one great point of difference. Newport possesses you. They are, therefore, to me, totally different." He waved one hand slightly and drew his cigarette case from his pocket with the other, glancing at ...
— Prince or Chauffeur? - A Story of Newport • Lawrence Perry

... found a body rolling in the surf. It was the body of a young man, large and strongly built, dressed in the uniform of an ensign of our navy. Surely a strange visitor to these shores! There was no mark of identification upon him except a cigarette case graven with an undecipherable monogram in Tiffany's most illegible style of arrow-headed inscription. This I buried with him, and staked the grave with a headboard. An officer and a gentleman, a youth of friendly ways and kindly ...
— The Mystery • Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams

... much. Oh, yes, I had forgotten!" She opened up a little gold cigarette case, which she took from her pocket, and extracted a ...
— Tish, The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions • Mary Roberts Rinehart


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