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smoking-carriage

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A smoking-car.

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Examples

  • Lord Talboys, but he never lost countenance; and at the next station Lady Kicklebury rushed out of the smoking-carriage and returned to her own place; where, I dare say, Captain Hicks and

    The Kickleburys on the Rhine 2006

  • He had taken a seat in a smoking-carriage, and was preparing to make himself comfortable with a novel and a cigar, when an elderly gentleman, who looked like a foreigner, came in as the train was about to move.

    Master of His Fate J. Mclaren Cobban

  • First thing I knew a guard came along and informed me mighty politely that I wasn't in a smoking-carriage.

    Secret Adversary Agatha Christie 1933

  • "You're sure you don't object to a smoking-carriage?"

    Love Among the Chickens 1928

  • First thing I knew a guard came along and informed me mighty politely that I wasn't in a smoking-carriage.

    The Secret Adversary CHRISTIE, Agatha, Dame 1922

  • Yet it was none of HER fault that this was not a smoking-carriage -- if that was what he meant.

    Jacob's Room Virginia Woolf 1911

  • "This is not a smoking-carriage," Mrs. Norman protested, nervously but very feebly, as the door swung open and a powerfully built young man jumped in.

    Jacob's Room Virginia Woolf 1911

  • I saw Drayton into a smoking-carriage, and climbed in and sat with him.

    Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Arthur Shearly Cripps 1910

  • Gerald had gone to a smoking-carriage, and Althea had hardly exchanged a word with him.

    Franklin Kane Anne Douglas Sedgwick 1904

  • The first boy (I never heard his name) was seated in the third-class smoking-carriage when I joined my train at Plymouth; seated beside his mother, an over-heated countrywoman in a state of subsiding fussiness.

    The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

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