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Tabagie (room)

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Tabagie (room)
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A tabagie is a room designated for smoking tobacco and socializing.

In every Palace was a Tabagie, a high large room with a dozen contented saturnine figures round a large long table, a long Dutch pipe in the mouth of each.[1]

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Smokers in an Interior (La tabagie, dit aussi Le corps de garde), 1643

In modern Quebec French, tabagie refers to a tobacco shop, which in Parisian French is called a bureau de tabac.[2]

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