smoking-concert

[ smoh-king-kon-sert ]

noun

, British.

1. a concert where smoking is allowed.

Word History and Origins

Origin of smoking-concert¹

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

Here there were gathered together some dozen young Free Staters, and an impromptu smoking concert was held.

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The ceremony was followed by a dance and a smoking concert, during which copious libations of basi were consumed.

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It was the Admiral's gig, rowing softly, that came into the midst of that merry little smoking-concert.

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Theres to be a political meeting, a smoking concert or something, after the dinner at the Prefecture to-night.

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"That sounds a good one," said Carthew, struggling with an unreasonable sensation of being in the chair at a smoking-concert.

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