cigarette girl

American  

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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Etymology

Origin of cigarette girl

First recorded in 1865–70

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 • Nov. 3, 2023

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 • Jan. 8, 2019

She soon had her own radio show, “Monica Makes Music,” and won the part of a singing cigarette girl in the short-lived Broadway show “Johnny 2x4.”

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2015

Here they’re played by the Broadway star Laura Benanti, as Carol-Lynne, the senior bunny, and Amber Heard of “Zombieland,” who wields that deadly stiletto as Maureen, the new cigarette girl.

From New York Times • Sep. 18, 2011

With the words she ran from the room, but was back in an incredibly short time, gowned as Bizet's cigarette girl, a red rose in her black hair, castanets upon her fingers.

From The Pit by Norris, Frank