cigar store Indian

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sculpture, typically wooden and painted, of a Native American Indian, of the sort prominently used in tobacco stores. US
    — ... Fenimore Cooper's Indian is a fraud. ... The cigar-store red man and the statuesque Pocahontas of the "vuelta abajo" trade as they are paraded in literature and thus pervert the public conceptions of our Indians, THEY—I want to destroy first if possible.

词形变化

cigar store Indians plural cigar-store Indian alternative

词源

From the once common use of sculpted wooden Indians as a symbol for tobacco selling.
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