smokeress

smokeress noun: a female smoker.

Noun

smokeress (plural smokeresses)

(dated, rare) A female smoker.
- But no sooner have we actually arrived at a station and debouched on its platform, and some nice old dear of a pater-familias-looking gentleman has got his tobacco roll alight,—than up comes our determined smokeress, and looks at him as innocent as a newborn babe; so of course he instantly becomes...1862, Charles Piazzi Smyth, Three Cities in Russia, volume I, London: Lovell Reeve & Co., page 355
- The Journal of Education, of Ohio (date unknown), informs us that in one of the schools of that state, consisting of five-and-thirty boys and girls, there are nine little boys who quid, and five little girls who smoke tobacco. The Journal seems annoyed by that statistical fact. ‘We say nothing...1866, London Society. An Illustrated Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature for the Hours of Relaxation, volume X, London, page 307

The Journal seems annoyed by that statistical fact. ‘We say nothing about the quidding,’ it wails aloud; ‘but when we think of the smokeresses, we almost fancy ourselves at the Sandwich Islands.’1866, London Society. An Illustrated Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature for the Hours of Relaxation, volume X, London, page 307:
The procession led off with a party of the king’s smokeresses, and after they had blown a cloud a troop of girls carrying long fetiche affairs like iron palm-leaves preceded the black jars.1874, J. A. Skertchly, Dahomey as It Is; Being a Narrative of Eight Months’ Residence in That Country, with a Full Account of the Notorious...
It seems that the old lady is now such a confirmed smokeress (ha! ha! […]1891, Grip, volumes 36–37, page 295:
A certain percentage of the fair sex smoke also, all the way from dainty little feminine cigarettes up to cigars, though the Russians declare that all the “smokeresses” are either Finns or Poles.1898, Railroad Men, volume 12, page 115:

plural	smokeresses

From smoker + -ess.

What does smokeress mean?: Smokeress means a female smoker.
How do you use smokeress in a sentence?: The Journal seems annoyed by that statistical fact. ‘We say nothing about the quidding,’ it wails aloud; ‘but when we think of the smokeresses, we almost fancy ourselves at the Sandwich Islands.’
What part of speech is smokeress?: Smokeress is a noun.
What is the plural of smokeress?: The plural of smokeress is smokeresses.

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