day coach
or daycoach
an ordinary railroad passenger car, as distinguished from a sleeping car, parlor car, or other deluxe accommodations.
the class of airline coach for daytime flight at regular fare.: Compare night coach.
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How to use day coach in a sentence
Save for a single parlor car or two, it has always been a day-coach train, no excess fare being charged.
The Modern Railroad | Edward HungerfordBut her mother bulked large and had been too long accustomed to her own rocking-chair to rest in a day-coach.
We Can't Have Everything | Rupert HughesThe Thropps rode all day in the day-coach to Chicago, and Kedzie loved every cinder that flew into her gorgeous eyes.
We Can't Have Everything | Rupert HughesThe other day-coach had fallen upon one end, and one-third of it was under water.
Robert Hardy's Seven Days | Charles Monroe SheldonAt the first stop I run forward on the off-side of the train, pass the Pullmans, and duck under and take a rod under a day-coach.
The Road | Jack London
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