Smokeasy

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An establishment where patrons are permitted to smoke despite a general ban.

    "My passport was an engraved invitation on expensive parchment paper. Inside a border of fanciful Morrocan ormentation was inscribed in elaborate script the name of the smokeasy: “Au Contraire.”"

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"My passport was an engraved invitation on expensive parchment paper. Inside a border of fanciful Morrocan ormentation was inscribed in elaborate script the name of the smokeasy: “Au Contraire.”"

Etymology

Blend of smoke + speakeasy.

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