cigarette girl

English

Noun

cigarette girl (plural cigarette girls)

  1. (chiefly historical) A woman employed to sell cigarettes, sometimes cigars, and other related items.
    Synonym: candy girl
    • 1999, Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist, Fleet (2017), page 148:
      Once in a while, with greater frequency as the night stumbles on, one of the inspectors makes a clumsy grab for one of the cigarette girls, who are as a group blonde and young and endowed by the Creator with exceptional breasts or legs, but never both.

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