sleeping car
- a railroad car fitted with berths, compartments, bedrooms, or drawing rooms for passengers to sleep in.
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Origin of sleeping car
An Americanism dating back to 1830–40
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Examples from the Web for sleeping car
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After dinner the girls had talked late—late for sleeping-car hours, that is to say.
Elsie Marley, HoneyJoslyn Gray
The sleeping-car, said the conductor afterwards, was fuller than usual that night.
Under FireCharles King
There was no sleeping-car for the author of "A Lodging for the Night."
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 13Elbert Hubbard
The next day I spent in the sleeping-car, running into Chicago.
Aladdin & Co.Herbert Quick
Check your baggage through, and don't use the sleeping-car too much.
Oklahoma SunshineFreeman E. (Freeman Edwin) Miller
sleeping car
- a railway car fitted with compartments containing bunks for people to sleep in
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