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smoking carriages

smoking carriages is the plural of smoking carriage.

Meaning of smoking carriage

Noun

smoking carriage (plural smoking carriages)

  1. (UK) Synonym of smoking car.
    • The trains then still had smoking carriages, and I would sit in these because their passengers seemed the friendliest - and I would smoke in the smoking carriage, because it seemed the done thing.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page xiii, Preface
    Synonyms:
    smoking car

Questions about smoking carriages

What is smoking carriages the plural of?
Smoking carriages is the plural of smoking carriage.

Words near smoking carriages in the dictionary

  1. smoking bishop
  2. smoking cap
  3. smoking caps
  4. smoking car
  5. smoking carriage
  6. smoking carriages
  7. smoking cars
  8. smoking ceremonies
  9. smoking ceremony
  10. smoking compartment
  11. smoking compartments

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