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Carotte

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Ca`rotte´
n.1.A cylindrical roll of tobacco; as, a carotte of perique.
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Monk quite as hungry as his people, but affecting perfect indifference for the absent mutton, cut a fragment of tobacco, half an inch long, from the carotte of a sergeant who formed part of his suite, and began to masticate the said fragment, assuring his lieutenants that hunger was a chimera, and that, besides, people were never hungry when they had anything to chew.
Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
So saying, he ordered about fifteen carottes of tobacco, and as many bags of corn, to be brought from the boat and laid in a heap near the council fire.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
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