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caporal

caporal noun: a type of shag tobacco.

Noun (1)

caporal (uncountable)

  1. A type of shag tobacco.
    • [T]he seats were uncomfortable, the place was crowded, the air thick with caporal horrible to breathe, but in their young enthusiasm they were indifferent.1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 44, in Of Human Bondage
    • She had been sitting there for nearly an hour and a half, and during that time she had drunk two glasses of black coffee, smoked six caporal cigarettes and read the week's Candide.1928, Jean Rhys, Quartet, Penguin, published 2000, page 7

Noun (2)

caporal (plural caporals)

  1. (Latin-America) A foreman or overseer.

Forms of caporal

pluralcaporals

Origin of caporal

Borrowed from French caporal.

Borrowed from Spanish caporal.

Questions about caporal

What does caporal mean?
Caporal means a type of shag tobacco.
What part of speech is caporal?
Caporal is a noun.
What is the plural of caporal?
The plural of caporal is caporals.

Words near caporal in the dictionary

  1. caponizing
  2. caponomics
  3. capons
  4. Capoocan
  5. Capoompeta
  6. caporal
  7. Caporale
  8. Caporales
  9. caporals
  10. Caporaso
  11. Caporasos

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