PANATELA Definition & Meaning

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panatela

[ pan-uh-tel-uh ]

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noun

a long, slender cigar, usually with straight sides and tapering to a point at the closed end.

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of panatela¹

First recorded in 1900–05; from American Spanish panetela, panatela “a kind of bread; long, slender biscuit,” from Italian panatella, diminutive of pane “bread” (from Latin ��Ծ�� ); -elle

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He had been smoking them since he was sixteen, and regularly, as many as a dozen a day—expensive panatelas, for the most part—since he was eighteen.

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Then he produced three panatelas, handed one each to Sidney and Shapolnik and lit the other himself.

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The two lawyers had risen hastily when Chief Justice Pendarvis entered; he responded to their greetings and seated himself at his desk, reaching for the silver cigar box and taking out a panatela.

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