cigarette girl

noun

1. a woman who sells cigars and cigarettes, usually from a tray displaying various brands, to customers in a restaurant or nightclub.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cigarette girl¹

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

The cigarette girl, pinkly pretty with an exaggerated figure, carrying a wooden tray with her wares, stopped at his gesture.

From Project Gutenberg

I have now a new cigarette-girl, and she rolled them for me herself, and brought them to me just as I was leaving St. Petersburg.

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Despite the terrific interest of the adventure of the cigarette girl, disappointment began immediately after landing.

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Great was our amazement on that memorable night in 1894 when we beheld for the first time a real cigarette girl of modern Spain.

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