restaurant car

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nounChiefly British.

Origin of restaurant car

1
First recorded in 1870–75

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How to use restaurant car in a sentence

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

    Castellinaria | Henry Festing Jones
  • It was the gentleman who had paid for her luncheon in the restaurant-car.

    Castellinaria | Henry Festing Jones
  • This was the "dinner from a restaurant car" that Dr Schmidt had told me about!

    Wounded and a Prisoner of War | Malcolm V. (Malcolm Vivian) Hay
  • And at six in the evening I was receiving the last of my many instructions through a window of the restaurant car.

    A Thief in the Night | E. W. Hornung
  • "Farther away from the restaurant car," added her companion, and she thanked him with a glance for his shrewdness.

    Wanted: A Husband | Samuel Hopkins Adams

British Dictionary definitions for restaurant car

restaurant car

noun
  1. British a railway coach in which meals are served: Also called: dining car

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