WordNet
n. a passenger car for passengers who wish to smoke [syn: smoker, smoking car, smoking carriage]
Usage examples of "smoking compartment".
He had seated himself by the window in a first-class non-smoking compartment, with his back to the engine because unfortunately another fellow was already in the other place, and jamming his trilby down on his head he sat with his fists deep in scarlet--lined gabardine and panicked.
Still farther along the corridor, in a first-class non-smoking compartment, Aline Peters looked through the window and thought of many things.
The smoking compartment in the parlour-car was full, and he went into the regular smoker.
John Garfield Madison went into the smoking compartment of the car for a cigar--several cigars--until Needley was reached some two hours later, when the dusky attendant, as he pocketed Madison's dollar, set down his little rubber-topped footstool with a flourish on a desolate and forbidding-looking platform.
The yellow-fronted diesel snaked its slow way punctually through the points just north of the station, and two minutes later he was seated opposite a young couple in a non-smoking compartment.
The porter installed Princess Ukhtomski in a second-class compartment of a Schnellzuh car--a smoking compartment as she requested.
The conversation among the traveling salesmen in the Pullman smoking compartment sounds like one that could be heard back at the Athletic Club.