smoking car

noun

1. smoker ( def 2a ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of smoking car¹

An Americanism dating back to 1855–60

Example Sentences

Several of his fellow passengers in the smoking-car were passing the "Courier" about and pointing to the editorial.

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He went directly to St. Louis, sitting up three days and nights in a smoking-car to make the journey.

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When the New York train reached there the young man found his guest in the smoking-car, travel-stained and distressingly clad.

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Henry Falkins had seen the two defendants sitting quietly and peaceably in the smoking-car, and they had nodded affably to him.

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I'll bite the smoke-stack off every railway engine I encounter, and throw it into the smoking car, where it really belongs.

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