Crossword-Solution: CUSPIDOR
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cuspidor | n. | Any ornamental vessel used as a spittoon; hence, to avoid the common term, a spittoon of any sort. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “CUSPIDOR”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Early hotel-lobby fixture | 1 answer |
| Oater saloon feature | 1 answer |
| Spittoon | 1 answer |
| Spittoon – so rid cup (anag.) | 1 answer |
| Saloon feature | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MCAEEZ
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CUSPIDOR (5)
One takes a basin and towels, another powder and rouge-boxes, another the pipe and embroidered tobacco pouch, not even forgetting the silver cuspidor, all of which will be needed.
The bed was rickety, with a thin knotty mattress; the sand-colored walls were scratched and gouged; in every corner, under everything, were fluffy dust and cigar ashes; on the tilted wash-stand was a nicked and squatty pitcher; the only chair was a grim straight object of spotty varnish; but there was an altogether splendid gilt and rose cuspidor.
Mahoney, the superintendent, catching sight of him, put him out, with the curt remark that he didn't want him to stick that crutch into a cuspidor and fall down, as it was too expensive a performance for the company to stand.
However noble or worthy in character may be some who use tobacco, yet by common consent it is a "tool of the devil." Every den of gamblers, every low-down grogshop, every smoking-car, every public resort and waiting-room departments for men, every rendezvous of rogues, loafers, villains, and tramps is thoroughly saturated with the vile stench of the cuspidor and the poisonous odors of the pipe and cigar.
Dickens, the satire male portion of the American nation was at one time addicted,--a cuspidor, in plain language,--had been started, by some unknown agency in the back seats, rolling down the centre aisle, and gathering impetus as it went, bumped the louder on each successive step until it hurled itself with a clash against the clerk's desk, at the feet of the orator himself.
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Appears in: NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1973–2017).