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

Her parents, for lack of a better word, were hustlers: her father was a grifting heroin addict while her mother lived on the fringes of movieland, working as a cigarette girl at the Copacabana and landing bit parts on shows like "I Love Lucy" yet never quite catching that elusive big break.

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His father, Francesco "Frank" Stallone Sr., worked as a hairdresser while his mother, Jacqueline "Jackie" Stallone, worked as a cigarette girl at Billy Rose’s Diamond Horseshoe nightclub.

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I drafted my first novel in the first six weeks of my son’s life, balancing him on a nursing pillow clipped around my body like a cigarette girl’s tray.

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A New York boy’s life and a cigarette girl’s story recall World War II-era radio.

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She sometimes looked directly at the camera, with an apparent smirk, and other times appeared serenely lost in thought, always with her little tray of Fiji bottles like an old-fashioned cigarette girl.

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