cigarsmoke

cigarsmoke

See also: cigar-smoke and cigar smoke

English

Noun

cigarsmoke (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of cigar smoke
   • 1873 June, “Our London Scrap-Book: The Haymarket”, in Harper's Magazine, volume 47, number 277, page 155:

     […] when bars and supperrooms and cafés throw out floods of light upon the pavement, crowded with sauntering figures; when the air is heavy with cigarsmoke and filled with the rustle-rustle of stiff silks —then the Haymarket is the Haymarket.

   • 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 11:

     The room smelled of old cigarsmoke.

   • 2000, John Dos Passos, The Big Money, page 168:

     There were waiters in the hall outside the suite and cigarsmoke and a great sound of social voices pouring out the open door.