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ashtray

[ ash-trey ]

noun

  1. a receptacle for tobacco ashes of smokers.


ashtray

/ ˈæʃˌٰɪ /

noun

  1. a receptacle for tobacco ash, cigarette butts, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ashtray1

First recorded in 1885–90; ash 1 + tray 1
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Example Sentences

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Houseplant Standing Ash Tray Now this is an ashtray meant to be displayed.

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On the stretch of Palm between North Olive and Glen avenues, all but a few of the houses are gone, replaced by a row of rectangular ashtrays.

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She describes the picturesque salon vividly, from the Jafra products to Patrick Nagel prints on the wall and the armrest ashtrays.

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But the breakthrough came from an Embassy cigarette end stubbed out on an ashtray on the living room coffee table.

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Five months in, I found myself on the floor, surrounded by the shattered remains of the porcelain ashtray I’d bought him.

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