"There he sat on his veranda, drinking whisky-pegs and smoking cheroots, ...."

A word for cigar that I haven't seen for a long time. I wonder if it had any special difference, or referred only to its place of origin.

Source: The Collins English Dictionary © 2000 HarperCollins Publishers:

cheroot [ʃə'ruːt]
noun a cigar with both ends cut off squarely
[ETYMOLOGY: 17th Century: from Tamil curuttu curl, roll]