cigarette holder

plural cigarette holders · alternative cigarette-holder

1. A tube-like device that holds a cigarette or a cigarillo and through which the cigarette or the cigarillo is smoked (mainly to prevent ash from falling onto a smoker's clothes, and nicotine from staining the fingers or gloves, as well as to keep side-stream smoke further from the smoker's eyes).

   The cigarette holder that uses a plastic cylinder filled with granules of silica reduced the nicotine content by 14 percent and the tar content by 21 percent.

   1943, Health Yearbook 1954, →ISBN, page 145

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   He displayed the cigarette holder grandly on every occasion and had learned to manipulate it adroitly. Unwittingly, he had discovered deep within himself a fertile aptitude for smoking with a cigarette holder.

   1961, Joseph Heller, Catch-22

   Cigarette holders were considered an essential part of women's fashion from the early to the mid-twentieth century and are sometimes of quite simple design; or they may be incredibly ornate, with gemstone or mother-of-pearl inlays.

   2007, Rayner W. Hesse, Jewelrymaking Through History: An Encyclopedia, →ISBN, page 53