smoking carriage

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Noun

smoking carriage (plural smoking carriages)

  1. (rail transport, British) Synonym of smoking car.
    • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page xiii, Preface:
      The trains then still had smoking carriages, and I would sit in these because their passengers seemed the friendliest - and I would smoke in the smoking carriage, because it seemed the done thing.

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