->Tim Rostron: /* Trichinopoly cigars in literature and cinema */Corrected reference to The Lady Vanishes.

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Trichinopoly cigars in literature and cinema: Corrected reference to The Lady Vanishes.

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'''Trichinopoly cigar''', also called '''Trichies''' or '''Tritchies''', is a type of [[cheroot]] associated with the town of [[Tiruchirappalli]] in [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]]. The Trichinopoly cigar was actually manufactured from [[tobacco]] grown near the town of [[Dindigul]] near the present-day Tiruchirappalli<ref name="1911britannica">{{cite EB1911|wstitle= Trichinopoly |volume= 27 | pages = 265–266; see page 266 |quote=...the well-known Trichinopoly cigars are chiefly manufactured from tobacco grown outside the district at Dindigul... }}</ref> and formed one of India's main items of export during the [[Victorian era]].

[[Winston Churchill]] was noted for his fondness of cigars. It was said that Churchill soon developed a taste for the mildly aromatic Trichy cigar in preference to the heavy pungent smell of Havanas.<ref>[https://www.thecitizen.in/index.php/en/NewsDetail/index/9/17312/The-Trichinopoly-Cheroot]</ref><ref>[https://www.firstpost.com/india/the-last-drags-of-a-famed-trichinopoly-cigar-6352711.html]</ref>

== Trichinopoly cigars in literature and cinema ==
In “the Story of the House with the Green Blinds”, a sub-section of “The Rajah’s Diamond”, itself a sub-section of New Arabian Nights” by Robert Louis Stevenson, Mr. Vandeleur “was smoking a Trichinopoli cigar in the veranda.”[page 157 Pentlandite Edition, Cassell & Company Limited : MCMVI]
In Chapter 3 of ''[[A Study In Scarlet]]'', by [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]], [[Sherlock Holmes]] provides [[Scotland Yard]] officials with a description of a man: "He was more than six feet high, was in the prime of life, had small feet for his height, wore coarse, square-toed boots and smoked a Trichinopoly cigar."

In Chapter 20 of "The Cat's Eye: A Dr. John Thorndyke Story", by [[R. Austin Freeman]], [[Dr. Thorndyke]] remarks that at the end of a case, he will "usually smoke a Trichinopoly Cigar." In Chapter XIII of ''The Red Thumb Mark'' by the same author, the villain, knowing Dr Thorndyke's partiality for Trichinopoly cigars, tries to murder him by sending him a poisoned specimen.

In Chapter III of ''[[The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club]]'', by [[Dorothy L. Sayers]], [[Lord Peter Wimsey]] has been drinking an expensive old [[port wine|port]] and comments disparagingly on "a fellow who polluted it with a Trichinopoly."

In the [[Father Brown]] story "The Salad of Colonel Cray" by [[G. K. Chesterton]], Colonel Cray recounts a story about their service in India and "asked Putnam if he could get some Trichinopoli cigars".

In [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s 1938 film ''[[The Lady Vanishes]]'', Gilbert, role-playing Sherlock Holmes,jokingly offers Iris Henderson a trichinopoly cigar: "For that, my dear Watson, you too have a Trichinopoly cigar." What he hands her from inside his jacket is a fountain pen.

== Notes ==
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== References ==
* {{cite book|title=Parliamentary debates: Senate and House of Representatives, Volume 39|pages=4224|publisher=Parliament of Australia|year=1908}}
* {{cite web|title=Trichies, Tritchies|url=https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.2:1:367.hobson|publisher=[[Hobson-Jobson]]}}

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[[Category:Culture of Tiruchirappalli]]
[[Category:Cigars]]

Trichinopoly cigar - Revision history

->Tim Rostron: /* Trichinopoly cigars in literature and cinema */Corrected reference to The Lady Vanishes.