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non-ˈsmoker
[non- 2.]
A person who does not smoke.
1846in H. C. Webster Railways for All (1950) xv. 114 Smokers and non-smokers should be apart, but why should smokers exclusively be indulged with the use of the best carriages on the line? 1860Pharmaceutical Jrnl. II. iii. 190 Dividing the pupils..into..the smokers and the non-smokers, it is shown that the smokers have proved themselves in the various competitive examinations far inferior to the others. 1891W. Morris News from Nowhere vi. 37 Bob is always telling me that we non-smokers are a selfish lot. 1898K. Baedeker Spain & Portugal p. xv, Every train is bound to have a first-class compartment..and another for non-smokers. 1921G. B. Shaw Back to Methuselah ii. 84 They believe the tee-totallers and non-smokers live longer. 1973K. Giles File on Death i. 10 No car, two suits a year, non-smoker, allows more than he should afford on drink.
b. A compartment in a railway carriage, or other conveyance, where smoking is not permitted. colloq.
1962J. Braine Life at Top v. 74 All the first-class compartments seemed to be full; finally I got a seat in a non-smoker. 1971‘L. Black’ Death has Green Fingers iii. 29 When the woman angrily lit a cigarette, he pointed out to her..that she was in a non-smoker. |