smoking car

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Origin of smoking car

An Americanism dating back to 1855–60

Words nearby smoking car

smoke shop, smokestack, smokestack industry, smoke tree, smokey, smoking car, smoking-concert, smoking gun, smoking jacket, smoking lamp, smoking room

How to use smoking car in a sentence

Harper tells Dunn after he walks up to the smoking car and gives Harper instructions on extricating herself.
A state trooper hit a pregnant woman’s car to enforce a traffic stop. It flipped and crashed.|Hannah Knowles|June 11, 2021|Washington Post
Several of his fellow passengers in the smoking-car were passing the "Courier" about and pointing to the editorial.
A Hoosier Chronicle|Meredith Nicholson
He went directly to St. Louis, sitting up three days and nights in a smoking-car to make the journey.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete|Albert Bigelow Paine
When the New York train reached there the young man found his guest in the smoking-car, travel-stained and distressingly clad.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete|Albert Bigelow Paine

Henry Falkins had seen the two defendants sitting quietly and peaceably in the smoking-car, and they had nodded affably to him.
The Code of the Mountains|Charles Neville Buck
I'll bite the smoke-stack off every railway engine I encounter, and throw it into the smoking car, where it really belongs.
In Camp With A Tin Soldier|John Kendrick Bangs

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