Meaning of smokeress | Babel Free

Definitions

A female smoker.

dated, rare

Examples

“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 self-convicted of a solecism, and with floundering apologies humbly offers her a light⟳; and she takes it too; but then, as she can only persuade⟳ her own⟳ aromatic leaf to ignite thoroughly while he is pulling away with all his lungs at his, why there necessarily ensues a most piquant tête-à-tête, as they look⟳ intensely for a minute or so right into each other’s countenances, at only the length of two cigars apart and the glowing little spark between.”

“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 about the quidding,’ it wails aloud; ‘but when we think⟳ of the smokeresses, we almost fancy ourselves at the Sandwich Islands.’”

“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.”

“It seems that the old lady is now such a confirmed smokeress (ha! ha! […]”

“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.”

“I cannot say⟳ that very young girls appear⟳ to indulge much, though women of all ages do to a great extent, inhaling the smoke⟳ and puffing it through the nose in thick clouds. […] The bowl of either kind is so tiny that it will only hold⟳ a pinch or two of very fine tobacco, which three or four whiffs consume⟳, when it has to be refilled and lighted from a slow-match held ready in the hand until the smokeress has smoked enough.”

“The smokeress of the cantina wears vol de nuit for me I love⟳ / Her high voices gravely wine assigns sky to become⟳ itself / I tier pipes and parma violets up into a friend and trumpet honor / Parts with me into the battle its heart presses my heart that it fights / They sleep⟳ all night wondering but star-filled whose they are / […]”

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