cavendish
Collocations
5ADJ.
beautiful, early, enigmatical, equal, fine, old, single
VERB + CAVENDISH
awakened, challenged, cut, parts, purchased, see
CAVENDISH + NOUN
herself, lady, lunch-time, tobacco
PREP.
in, until
ADV.
gently
Definitions
name
A surname.
A village and civil parish in West Suffolk district, Suffolk, England, previously in St Edmundsbury district (OS grid ref TL8046).
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noun
The most commonly sold banana; one of the triploid (AAA) cultivars of Musa acuminata.
Crucially, almost the entirety of exported bananas are Cavendishes.
Alternative form of cavendish (“type of tobacco”).
noun
Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.
"But the managers seem inclined to cut their cavendish very fine just at present," she said.
No man less; only he (not Vieuxbois, but his younger brother) has found a wide-awake cooler than an iron kettle, and travels by rail when he is at home; and when he was in the Crimea, rode a shaggy pony, and smoked cavendish all through the battle of Inkermann." "
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6Crucially, almost the entirety of exported bananas are Cavendishes.
Wiktionary"But the managers seem inclined to cut their cavendish very fine just at present," she said.
WiktionaryNo man less; only he (not Vieuxbois, but his younger brother) has found a wide-awake cooler than an iron kettle, and travels by rail when he is at home; and when he was in the Crimea, rode a shaggy po
WiktionaryThen burn equal parts of cavendish tobacco and old shoeleather in an iron vessel till charred.
WiktionaryMrs. Cavendish, who had married John's father when he was a widower with two sons, had been a handsome woman of middle-age as I remembered her.
Tatoeba · #8824575Their country-place, Styles Court, had been purchased by Mr. Cavendish early in their married life.
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