Rothschild
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Definition
An older name for a short, thick cigar of roughly 4 1/2 to 5 inches by 48 to 50, said to have been commissioned by the Rothschild banking family in the nineteenth century. The word robusto has largely displaced it.
Why it matters
Seeing Rothschild on a modern band usually signals a house with a long catalog and old naming habits rather than a genuinely distinct size.
In context
"Rothschild and robusto are the same cigar with two centuries between the names."
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