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tourist car

American  

noun

  1. a railroad sleeping car, usually having seats that can be converted into berths.


Etymology

Origin of tourist car

An Americanism dating back to 1890–95

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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

If the rear part of the tourist car had suggested a modern kitchen, the front portion was a well-appointed living 248 room.

From Ralph on the Overland Express The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer by Allen Chapman

At Chicago, Bauer changed to a tourist car and found as companions, two other young men, both going to Flagstaff to live in tents at the base of the San Francisco Mountains.

From The High Calling by Charles Monroe Sheldon

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