Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Marked by indecency; obscene.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A room, as in a private dwelling or a hotel, set apart for the use of smokers.
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Examples
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At the other end of the smoking-room I ran into a group of men bunched excitedly and angrily around Bertie Messener.
THE DREAM OF DEBS 2010
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General Folsom, nursing his capacious paunch in a window-seat in the smoking-room was defending himself against half-a-dozen excited gentlemen who were demanding that he should do something.
THE DREAM OF DEBS 2010
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"He's sure the real thing," he told one of his fellow-clubmen afterwards, in the smoking-room of the Alta-Pacific.
Chapter I 2010
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On my return I paid fivepence for a "cabin," took my receipt for the same in the form of a huge brass check, and went upstairs to the smoking-room.
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The walls of this room will be covered with books, and it can serve as library and smoking-room as well.
The House Beautiful 2010
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At the close of the banquet, which consisted of not less than fifteen courses, we withdrew to a smoking-room, where the coffee was served and cigarettes and chibouks offered us -- the latter a pipe having a long flexible stem with an amber mouthpiece.
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And so I dined very well, alone, and sat alone in the top smoking-room with my cigar and with a magazine all evening, save once, when a waiter brought me whisky and I stopped him by my chair, and he told me about the Test Matches, and we talked for a little time.
Movie Night 2010
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In my club there is a little smoking-room at the top of the house, that looks out over St James's Park; I took him up there after dinner because I knew that we should have the room to ourselves at that time of night, and we settled down with our cigars before the fire.
Movie Night 2010
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Two nights ago, Monday, you played baccarat in the smoking-room after dinner.
Watershed 2010
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"Why, on the first night, when the Prince said ` Who's for baccarat, everyone? 'and they went to play in the smoking-room, and Count Lutzow and I and Miss Naylor and Lady Brougham went to watch."
Watershed 2010
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