cigarette-holder

plural cigarette-holders

1. alternativeAlternative form of cigarette holder.

   And he [Dalton Trumbo] remains dapper even in the most dire of circumstances — the hair, the moustache and the sleek cigarette-holder.

   2015 November 27, Bill Brownstein, “Bryan Cranston helps bring Trumbo back to larger than life”, in Montreal Gazette, page B3, column 2

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   Pipes, cigars and cigarette-holders, amber goods in great variety, and all kinds of smokers’ articles cheaper than elsewhere, at Sig. Roescher’s, 296 Main street, next to City Ice-house.

   1874 December 24, Public Ledger, volume XIX, number 99, Memphis, Tenn., page [3], column 5

   One moment he [Peter O’Toole] had the audience in the palm of his hand, hanging on to every move he made, from the flutter of an eyelid to the flicking of ash from a long cigarette-holder as he represented, with his serpent’s tongue, the thoughtful desolation of an alcoholic London journalist in Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell.

   2013 December 16, Eric Shorter, “[Obituaries] Peter O’Toole”, in The Independent, number 8483, page 48

   But there are crucial advantages to smoking in films, which such campaigns can never concede: it gives actors a useful, subtle, nonverbal way to tell us something about their characters, from Michael Corleone’s dead-calm manipulation of a Zippo in The Godfather, to Norma Desmond’s talon-like cigarette-holder in Sunset Boulevard.

   2016 April 7, Robbie Collin, “Smoking — film’s last taboo: Lawsuit alleges smoking in films has led 4.6 million youths to take up the habit”, in Vancouver Sun, page NP3, columns 4–5