Etymology:
< humid adj., after cuspidor.
A box, cabinet, or room in which
cigars or tobacco are kept moist; also, any apparatus, such as damp
sponges, for keeping cigars, the atmosphere, etc., moist. (OED)
"Some of the board of directors would rather have spent money on a walk-in humidor for shareholders than on a new plane,' Aboulafia says."
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