Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A long slender cigar.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A long slender cigar.

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  • noun A long thin cigar.

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  • noun a long slender cigar

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Spanish, biscuit, cigar, from American Spanish, long thin biscuit, from Italian panatella, diminutive of panata, panada, from pane, bread, from Latin pānis; see pā- in Indo-European roots.]

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The word derives from the Spanish word for a long thin biscuit, from the Italian diminutive panatella, which ultimately derives from the Latin pānis, "bread."

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Examples

  • He was finished with his food and was untubing a panatela, a simple exercise that he surrounded with detailed ceremony.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • He was finished with his food and was untubing a panatela, a simple exercise that he surrounded with detailed ceremony.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • He was finished with his food and was untubing a panatela, a simple exercise that he surrounded with detailed ceremony.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Switters lit a Havana panatela, Cuban cigars being an occasional perk of CIA employment.

    Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

  • Switters lit a Havana panatela, Cuban cigars being an occasional perk of CIA employment.

    Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

  • Having ignited it to his satisfaction, he seated himself in the straight-backed chair that faced the writing table, crossed one leg over the other, and—eyes narrowed against the plumes of smoke drifting upwards from his panatela—regarded me intently.

    Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999

  • Holding the clipping towards the light, Crockett began to peruse it, squinting through the smoky haze issuing from the smoldering tip of his much-reduced panatela.

    Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999

  • It was only then that he perceived—to his inexpressible astonishment and consternation—that the panatela had burnt itself down to a hot, glowing stub, clamped between the first and middle fingers of his right hand.

    Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999

  • This was the case of a young Trinidadian gentleman who—while seated on the portico of his plantation house one afternoon, enjoying a panatela cigar—had suddenly become aware of the distinctive aroma of roasting meat.

    Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999

  • Milo lowered the window, lit up a panatela, and blew smoke out at the city.

    Devil's Waltz Kellerman, Jonathan 1992

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  • "The merchandising of Dan Patch, after all, had begun back in Oxford, where before the horse had ever raced, the local blacksmith was publicly boasting about providing Dan's shoes, and panatelas were being rolled in the pacer's honor."

    —Charles Leerhsen, Crazy Good: The True Story of Dan Patch (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008), 255

    October 28, 2008

  • Also panetela.

    October 28, 2008