Meanings
caporal1
- uncountableA type of shag tobacco.
[T]he seats were uncomfortable, the place was crowded, the air thick with caporal horrible to breathe, but in their young enthusiasm they were indifferent.
1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 44, in Of Human Bondage1 more example
She had been sitting there for nearly an hour and a half, and during that time she had drunk two glasses of black coffee, smoked six caporal cigarettes and read the week's Candide.
1928, Jean Rhys, Quartet, Penguin, published 2000, page 7
caporal2
Origin
caporal · noun
- Italiancaporale
- Frenchcapora
- Englishcaporal
Borrowed from French caporal.
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Full word history & related roots →caporal · noun
- Italiancaporale
- Spanishcapora
- Englishcaporal
Borrowed from Spanish caporal.
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caporal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/caporal
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