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Definition of Smoking compartment

1. Noun. A passenger car for passengers who wish to smoke.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Smoking Compartment

Literary usage of Smoking compartment

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cost Capitalization and Estimated Value of American Railways: An Analysis of by Slason Thompson (1908)
"... smoking compartment in the latter accounts for nearly all the difference in cost between the two cars." The history of the road to which this case ..."

2. Cost Capitalization and Estimated Value of American Railways: An Analysis of by Slason Thompson (1908)
"... smoking compartment in the latter accounts for nearly all the difference in cost between the two cars." The history of the road to which this case ..."

3. Rhymes of a Homesteader by Elliott Curtis Lincoln (1920)
"Overheard in the smoking compartment " PRETTY slick, were n't she! Sure — the little one That jest went by the door — it's her I mean. ..."

4. Rhymes of a Homesteader by Elliott Curtis Lincoln (1920)
"Overheard in the smoking compartment " PRETTY slick, were n't she! Sure — the little one That jest went by the door — it's her I mean. ..."

5. His Great Adventure by Robert Herrick (1913)
"As Brainard entered the smoking compartment of the "club car," he observed that his interesting fellow traveler was in close conversation with a new arrival ..."

6. The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases in the by United States Courts, Great Britain Courts (1891)
"He found every seat in the smoking compartment occupied, and passed into the baggage compartment There was a rule of the railroad company requiring those in ..."

7. The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases Affecting by Frank Cyrus Smith, Thomas Johnson Michie, United States Courts, Great Britain Courts, Canada Courts (1912)
"(9) Conductor stood in the smoking compartment for a while. ... (13) Conductor did not answer, but went out of the smoking compartment. ..."

8. Electric Railway Transportation by Henry William Blake, Walter Jackson (1917)
"The location of the smoking compartment is one of the few problems. ... Where the smoking compartment can be omitted, however, it should be done if for no ..."

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