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Definition of Smoking car
1. Noun. A passenger car for passengers who wish to smoke.
Generic synonyms: Carriage, Coach, Passenger Car
Definition of Smoking car
1. Noun. A railroad car in which smoking is allowed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smoking Car
Literary usage of Smoking car
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1897)
"Held, that a passenger who. in conformity to this custom, had passed from the
smoking car and was standing upon the platform of the passenger car just ..."
2. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1881)
"Conductor John Blackmer was a good deal surprised that day when -he opened the
door of the smoking-car on the fast New York express, just after leaving ..."
3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"... if he had remained in the smoking car he would probably not have been killed,
us nobody was hurt in it. His presence was not required in the postal car, ..."
4. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1908)
"He expected to find the smoking car at the head of the train and for that ...
The smoking car was in fact the fifth car from the rear and the eighth car ..."
5. My First Holiday; Or, Letters Home from Colorado, Utah, and California by Caroline Wells Healey Dall (1881)
"sisted on the shelter of a smoking car for myself and my baggage, until a gentleman
from Brooklyn procured my berth ticket. The three colored porters could ..."
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