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

Example Sentences

Later that night, she sat down in the darkness of a smoking room at the hotel, and composed her first diary entry on her laptop.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2022

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

On my first day of work in a psychiatric hospital, I spent most of my time sitting in a dreary smoking room drinking tea with the “service users”.

From The Guardian • May 11, 2019

We looked around the gentlemen’s smoking room to see if a cat’s eyes glowed from under the furniture, behind the damask drapes.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck