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cigarette girl

noun

  1. a woman who sells cigars and cigarettes, usually from a tray displaying various brands, to customers in a restaurant or nightclub.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cigarette girl1

First recorded in 1865–70
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Example Sentences

His father, Francesco "Frank" Stallone Sr., worked as a hairdresser while his mother, Jacqueline "Jackie" Stallone, worked as a cigarette girl at Billy Rose’s Diamond Horseshoe nightclub.

From Salon

I drafted my first novel in the first six weeks of my son’s life, balancing him on a nursing pillow clipped around my body like a cigarette girl’s tray.

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A New York boy’s life and a cigarette girl’s story recall World War II-era radio.

She sometimes looked directly at the camera, with an apparent smirk, and other times appeared serenely lost in thought, always with her little tray of Fiji bottles like an old-fashioned cigarette girl.

From Slate

“Nomadland’s” central character is Linda May, a 64-year-old grandmother who’s worked an assortment of jobs through her life: as a cigarette girl at a casino, managing a carpet and tile shop in Arizona, as a Home Depot cashier.

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