Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A railroad-car in which smoking is permitted.

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Examples

  • The dust-caked doors are open, and from the smoking-car drifts back a visible blue line of stinging tobacco smoke, and with it a crackle of laughter over the story which the young man in the bright blue suit and lavender tie and light yellow shoes has just told to the squat man in garage overalls.

    Main Street 2004

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

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

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

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • She told me to treat him just the same as I had, when he come back from the smoking-car, and not to rile him or cross him any.

    A Special Providence 1995

  • I told the old gentleman I was very tired, and felt like I must have a little rest, and if he would go into the smoking-car and take a smoke for a while, I would try to rest myself.

    A Special Providence 1995

  • It happened also, after entering the smoking-car, that the remaining vacant seat was at my side, and here Mr. Davis established himself.

    Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis Various

  • To this day it remains a mystery how the child succeeded in reaching the smoking-car unnoticed and unhindered.

    Stories Worth Rereading Various

  • I was not sorry he had gone with me when I found in the smoking-car one of the spies who had been watching me so constantly.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various

  • The twistings of the road-bed, so advantageous for presenting the varied loveliness of the wilds, were by way of being a real torture to the young adventurer, who sat in seeming stolidity near the rear door of the smoking-car, with the black bag between his feet.

    Heart of the Blue Ridge Waldron Baily

  • At intervals during the day he left her to go into the smoking-car to enjoy his pipe.

    The Land of Promise D. Torbett

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