restaurant car

noun

, Chiefly British.

1. dining car.

restaurant car

noun

1. a railway coach in which meals are served Also calleddining car

Word History and Origins

Origin of restaurant car¹

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

In the evening I told him about the lady in the restaurant-car.

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It was the gentleman who had paid for her luncheon in the restaurant-car.

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This was the "dinner from a restaurant car" that Dr Schmidt had told me about!

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And at six in the evening I was receiving the last of my many instructions through a window of the restaurant car.

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"Farther away from the restaurant car," added her companion, and she thanked him with a glance for his shrewdness.

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