Tabagie (room)

A tabagie is a room designated for smoking tobacco and socializing.

In every Palace was a Tabagie, a high large room with a dozen contented saturnine figures round a large long table, a long Dutch pipe in the mouth of each.[1]

Smokers in an Interior (La tabagie, dit aussi Le corps de garde), 1643

In modern Quebec French, tabagie refers to a tobacco shop, which in Parisian French is called a bureau de tabac.[2]

See also

References
  1. Guide To Carlyle. Ardent Media. 1922. pp. 184–. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
  2. Dodi-Katrin Schmidt; Michelle M. Williams; Dominique Wenzel (1 June 2011). French For Dummies. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 186–. ISBN 978-1-118-05350-8. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.