Use for, usually life-size, carved wooden figures set up as advertisements in front of or just inside of cigar stores; popular in the United States from the early 19th century until the 1890s.
AAT
3000254301
cigar store figures
figures, cigar store
figures, cigar-store
13yrs ago
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