Definition of "smoke-room" [smoke-room]

• A room or cabin set apart for the use of smokers: usually referring to such a room on a ship. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The man who, when he needs repairs to his house, summons the experts, and then retires to his study or his smoke-room, carefully closes the door, and becomes absorbed in his pipe and his books, cannot boast of being a practical Distributist."
• "SHADEGG: We had said we would be different, we would clean up Washington and it would operate openly and above-board and no secret deals and no smoke-room deals -- smoke-filled room deals and no backroom deals that are cut and no late night deals and the American people have now read that in point of fact none of that happened."
• "SHADEGG: We had said we would be different; we would clean up Washington, and it would operate openly and above board, and no secret deals, and no smoke-room deals -- smoke-filled-room deals, and no back-room deals that are cut and no late-night deals."