What is "spittoons"

Usage examples of "spittoons".

In many cases, too, the wealthy and the cultured rose to spittoons and other evidences of a sumptuous and luxurious taste.

Harz into another room, decorated with pipe-racks, prints of dancinggirls, spittoons, easy-chairs well-seasoned by cigar smoke, French novels, and newspapers.

There were buckets, spittoons, pictures, lamps, and rush-bottom chairs.