smoking car

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Origin of smoking car

1
An Americanism dating back to 1855–60

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How to use smoking car in a sentence

  • 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.

  • When the New York train reached there the young man found his guest in the smoking-car, travel-stained and distressingly clad.

  • 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