smoking room

American  

noun

1. a room set apart for smoking, as in a hotel or clubhouse.

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smoking room British  

noun

1. a room, esp in a hotel or club, for those who wish to smoke

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Etymology

Origin of smoking room

First recorded in 1680–90

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Example Sentences

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smoking room

Those Dutch costumes have, alas, disappeared into history’s mist, as has the smoking room and, for the most part, the movies.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2021

It has been said that if a member came into the smoking room and announced that he had just shot the course in under par, some other member would ask him, “Why?”

From Golf Digest ● May 5, 2020

Also, in a sign of those times, there was a men’s smoking room.

From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2018

First they took away the smoking room, and I said nothing, because I was not a smoker.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 20, 2016

A fog of cigar smoke enveloped us as we passed the gentlemen’s smoking room.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

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