smoking-chair

Updated: July 19, 2026

There were also the property, no doubt, of Valerie a low easy-chair and a man's smoking-chair, and a pretty toilet chest of drawers in rosewood, the mirror handsomely framed a la Pompadour. A lamp hanging from the ceiling gave a subdued light, increased by wax candles on the table and on the chimney-shelf.

Honoré de Balzac - Poor Relations

There were also the property, no doubt, of Valerie a low easy-chair and a man's smoking-chair, and a pretty toilet chest of drawers in rosewood, the mirror handsomely framed a la Pompadour. A lamp hanging from the ceiling gave a subdued light, increased by wax candles on the table and on the chimney-shelf.

Honoré de Balzac - Cousin Betty