[SMOKING vbl. sb.] A room in a house, hotel, club, etc., set apart as a place for smoking in.

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1689.  Shadwell, Bury Fair, III. i. We’ll into my Smoaking-room and sport about a Brimmer.

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1754.  Connoisseur, No. 48, ¶ 3. The Squire gets drunk … in the smoking-room.

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1840.  Marryat, Poor Jack, xiii. Most of those who prefer smoking collect in … the smoking room.

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1890.  ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Col. Reformer (1891), 147. The same deserted library, the same populous smoking-room.

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  attrib.  1886.  Pall Mall Gaz., 20 Oct., 4/3. Jotting down short smoking-room stories.

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