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Roughing It in Southern India choose

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[Ind] Mrs. M.A. Handley Roughing It in Southern India I 156: men who understood the work came from Trichinopoly to do the curing and rolling into cheroots (here we did not call them cigars) after the manner of ‘Trichies,’ a sort which it takes a well-seasoned smoker to appreciate, as they are very strong. Trichies have a special shape of their own, being large and tapering, and cut off square at each end, and have a reed through them, which is supposed to make them ‘draw’ better.
at Trichy, n.
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