tourist car
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tourist car
An Americanism dating back to 1890–95
Example Sentences
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From the tourist car park, it is a 20-minute hike to the crater.
From Time Magazine Archive
The illusion is complete, as the tourist car actually moves slowly across the interior of a huge drum that spins at 75 revolutions per minute.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once last year she’d found a fine boy’s shirt that had been used as a rag to wipe mud from a tourist car and thrown away.
From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty
“Here’s the dope—that engine and old tourist car was a kind of a special—the craziest special, 219 though, that either you or I ever heard of.”
From Ralph on the Overland Express The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer by Chapman, Allen
“And the first tourist car that you ran empty to the Spur?” inquired Ralph.
From Ralph on the Overland Express The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer by Chapman, Allen
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