Noun: smoking
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | smoking |
| Plural m | smokings |
Sample Sentences
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Varichkine avait endossé un smoking que nul dandy londonien n’eût renié, un smoking à revers de moire, avec un gilet de faille noire, orné d’une chaîne de montre à breloque symbolique : la faucille et le marteau d’or semés de rubis. (Varishkin had donned a tuxedo that no London dandy would have refused, a tuxedo with moire lapels, with a black faille waistcoat, adorned with a watch chain with a symbolic charm: the sickle and hammer, made of gold strewn with rubies.) [1925, Maurice Dekobra, La Madone des sleepings:]
Nouns inflected like smoking
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Pseudo-anglicism, derived from an ellipsis of English smoking jacket. See: English Nouns '
smoking jacket'.
Verbs referencing "smoking"
Czech Nouns
smoking, Danish Nouns
smoking, Dutch Nouns
smoking, Italian Nouns
smoking, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
smoking, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
smoking, Portuguese Nouns
smoking, Slovak Nouns
smoking, Spanish Nouns
smoking, Swedish Nouns
smoking, German Nouns
Smoking, Spanish Nouns
esmoquin, Czech Nouns
smokink, Bulgarian Nouns
смокинг, Russian Nouns
смокинг, Finnish Nouns
smokki, Hungarian Nouns
szmoking, Icelandic Nouns
smóking, Catalan Nouns
esmòquing.
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