smoke-room

The man who, when he needs repairs to his house, summons the experts, and then retires to his study or his smoke-room, carefully closes the door, and becomes absorbed in his pipe and his books, cannot boast of being a practical Distributist.

G.K.'s Weekly - Practical Distributism IV 2007

SHADEGG: We had said we would be different, we would clean up Washington and it would operate openly and above-board and no secret deals and no smoke-room deals -- smoke-filled room deals and no backroom deals that are cut and no late night deals and the American people have now read that in point of fact none of that happened.

CNN Transcript Nov 10, 2006 2006

SHADEGG: We had said we would be different; we would clean up Washington, and it would operate openly and above board, and no secret deals, and no smoke-room deals -- smoke-filled-room deals, and no back-room deals that are cut and no late-night deals.

CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2006 2006

Impossible to write in my bedroom, the temperature was below zero; there was no choice but to sit down in the common room, a place like the smoke-room of a poor commercial hotel in England.

New Grub Street 2003

I hunted him out at his club, slid inside when the porter wasn't looking, and found him in the smoke-room.

Royal Flash Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1970

It is in the other corner of the smoke-room that the Cheering-Up Association meets.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 28, 1914 Various

In two minutes after leaving the smoke-room Ducie's geographical ideas of the place were completely at fault.

The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 Various

Precisely at one-thirty he was on his way back to the smoke-room, his feet encased in a pair of Indian mocassins.

The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 Various

Nobody is allowed to go on the boat deck beyond the smoke-room.

Five Months on a German Raider Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the 'Wolf' Frederic George Trayes

Since the War began the military experts have monopolised one corner of the smoke-room.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 28, 1914 Various