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oronoco, oronooko|ɔərəʊˈnəʊkəʊ, -ˈnuːkəʊ|
Also 8 Oranoco, Oronoko, 8–9 Oroonoko, -ka, 9 Oronokoo, Orinoco.
[Origin uncertain: app. a proper name, but stated in A Paper on Tobacco 118 by J. Fume 1839 to be unconnected with the river Oronoco in South America.]
Name of a variety of tobacco.
1706Phillips, Oranoco (i.e. bright and large), a Name given to the common sort of Tobacco in the Plantations of Virginia. 1708E. Cook Sot-weed Factor (1865) 23 Broad Oronooko bright and sound, The growth and product of this ground. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 321 Oroonoka, Nicotiana. 1800in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. IV. 365 Bursting from the effluvia of train-oil, salt-cod, and oroonoko. 1889Doyle Micah Clarke 34 Smoking his evening pipe of Oronooko. 1896P. A. Bruce Econ. Hist. Virginia I. 436 Between the sweet-scented and the Oronoco..there were several varieties. |