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Definition of Smoking room
1. Noun. Room in a hotel or club set apart for smokers.
Definition of Smoking room
1. Noun. A room designated for people who wish to smoke. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smoking Room
Literary usage of Smoking room
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde (1899)
"On the left, the door of the smoking- room. A pair of folding doors at the back
open into the drawing-room. The fire is lit. ..."
2. The Bookman (1903)
""Pa" does not spend a great deal of time in the smoking room ; in fact, ...
Two weeks later you will perhaps run across him in the smoking-room of some ..."
3. The Country House: A Practical Manual of the Planning and Construction of by Charles Edward Hooper (1905)
"They can be cared for in other ways, but some consideration must be given them.
The true smoking room, with its inviting divans and its hangings and ..."
4. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"... Visit to an Opium- Joint—Carefully-Guarded Doors — How Admission is Gained —
The Peep-Hole — Cunning Celestials — Scenes in the Smoking-Room —Victims of ..."
5. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"... Scenes in the Smoking-Room —Victims - of the Opium Habit — First Experiences
at Hitting the Pipe — A Terrible Longing — A Woman's Experience—White Opium ..."
6. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1902)
"You can easily spend in that smoking-room, (as for the billiard- room adjacent,
how much more can't you get rid of there,) and without any inconvenience or ..."
7. The Decoration of Houses by Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman (1897)
"XII THE LIBRARY, SMOKING-ROOM, AND "DEN" IN the days when furniture was defined
as "that which may be carried about," the natural bookcase was a chest with ..."
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