Corona2
(kəˈrəʊnə)
Also corona.
[From the proprietary name La Corona (Sp.) the crown.]
A well-known brand of Havana cigar.
| [1877 Trade Marks Jrnl. 14 Nov. 1671 La Corona... Firm of Manuel Lopez and Company, Havana.] 1887 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 127 Havana Cigars..‘La Corona’..Aguilas Imperiales Corona. [1904 Trade Marks Jrnl. 23 Nov. 1424 La Corona... Manufactured Tobacco. The Havana Cigar and Tobacco Factories, Limited.] 1912 W. J. Locke Aristide Pujol viii, He found him smoking a large corona. 1915 Morn. Post 16 Mar. 4, I..bought a thousand Corona Coronas an hour ago. 1919 Wodehouse Damsel in Distress xxi, Over the old coronas we will discuss many things. 1921 19th Cent. May 767 The fur-coated Corona-puffing multi-millionaire. 1926 M. Walsh Key above Door viii. 95, I was in the middle of a long corona when Lady Clunas rose to go. 1929 Tobacco 1 Oct. 72/2 The H. Upman factory is continuing the exportation of large quantities of Havana cigars from the English market, principally in Corona et Petit Corona sizes of the H. Upman brand. 1964 C. Hodder-Williams Main Experiment v. 49 Honiton peered penetratingly over the top of a large Corona at Sally, who had silently declined a cigarette. |