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单词 smokers' companion
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smokers' companion
b. An object or set of objects (usually contained in its own box or case) for use when engaging in a particular activity; a box or case intended to house such a set of objects. Chiefly with modifying word in the names of products, as smokers' companion, travellers' companion. Now chiefly historical.Recorded earliest in lady's companion n. (b) at lady n. Compounds 3b.See also companion set n. at Compounds 2.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > equipment for any action or undertaking > a device or contrivance > set of
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1843 New Mirror 23 Dec. 1/1 (advt.) Lady's Work Cases and ‘Lady's Companions’, at from $1 to $50.
1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 118/1 Whitewood Box Scholars' Companion: furnished with lead pencil, pen, penholder, slate pencil and six inch wood ruler.
1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 86 Smokers' companions... No. 4825/2. A great convenience, can be stood beside the chair.
1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 188/3 The ‘Sirram’ Travellers' Companion..For making tea when touring, boating, &c... Comprises kettle,..stand, spirit stove,..spirit tin, and muslin tea infuser.
1939–40 Army & Navy Stores Catal. 769/2 Hunting Companion in best pigskin folding case containing two boot pulls, two boot lifts, combined shoe horn and button hook—49/6.
1969 E. H. Pinto Treen 339 Smokers' Companions, small fitted table to stand alongside ‘father's armchair’, enjoyed their heyday between 1830 and 1914.
2010 Western Morning News (Nexis) 13 Nov. 47 From the 1930s is a desirable gentleman's cocktail companion containing a recipe holder, shaker, corkscrew, cocktail stick holder, etc, that nestle on a burwood base for £80-£120.
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