[f. SMOKE sb. or v. Cf. Fris. smokerij smoking.]
1. In contemptuous use (see quot.).
1657. J. Watts, Dipper Sprinkled, 97. From the publick Ministery or Steeple-houses, (be it so) to private mysteries or smokeries, rather of their Chimney-houses.
2. Articles or materials used in smoking.
1837. New Monthly Mag., L. 86. Pipes of all sorts…—all nations and all people were represented in this vast arsenal of smokery.
3. A place used for smoking; a smoking-room, an opium-den, etc.
1901. Daily Chron., 29 May, 5/6. The immorality of the ‘smokeries’ will probably suffice to close them as disorderly.
