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perfecto orig. U.S.|pəˈfɛktəʊ|
Also Perfecto, Perfectos.
[Sp. perfecto perfect.]
A type of cigar, thick in the centre and tapering at each end.
Also used in the names of various brands of cigar and cigarette.
1894Harper's Weekly 5 May 429/2 A minute later two of the raggedest-looking tramps you ever saw were trudging westward through the rain, each smoking a Carolina Perfecto costing thirty-five cents apiece. 1897Sears, Roebuck Catal. 24/2 La Flor de Portuondo, Perfectos. A 5 inch cigar. 1898H. E. Hamblen Gen. Manager's Story 3 The old gentleman..blowing the smoke from his ‘perfecto’ out into the cool starlight. 1904‘O. Henry’ Four Million (1906) 74 He always..handed out real perfectos to the delighted boys. 1931E. S. Gardner in Detective Fiction Weekly 14 Mar. 302/2 He took a box of perfectos..and selected one. 1944S. Bellow Dangling Man (1946) 149, I sucked tranquilly at my Perfecto Queen and said to myself, ‘It's in the bag.’ 1953Trade Marks Jrnl. 5 Aug. 707/2 Perfectos Finos... Cigarettes for export. British-American Tobacco Company, Limited, Westminster House, 7, Millbank, London, S.W.1; Tobacco Manufacturers. 1960R. K. Heimann Tobacco & Americans 248/2 Where fat perfectos and ‘banker’ sizes had once ruled the glassed counters, slim panetelas and palmas moved to the front row. 1961C. Willock Death in Covert iv. 78 Crumbe-Howard took a Perfectos Finos from a gold case. 1968D. MacKenzie Three minus Two 85 Smith chose a Perfecto and lit it. 1973‘D. Jordan’ Nile Green xiii. 54, I took a Perfectos from the silver box and tried to light a match on my thumbnail. |