sleeping car
English
Alternative forms
- sleeper car
Noun
sleeping car (plural sleeping cars)
- (rail transport) A railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.
- 1939 November, “Pertinent Paragraphs: The Sleeping Car”, in Railway Magazine, page 360:
- In August 1859, eighty years ago, a sleeping car appeared on the Chicago & Alton Railroad of the United States, a great advance on the primitive facilities previously available.
Translations
a railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.
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