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
A private tourist car was provided, and the train journey occupied four days and nights, and carried the party through wonderful scenery.
From The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men" by Carpenter, Minnie Lindsay Rowell
She had been too careful of her money to spend any for a sleeper, foregoing even a berth in the tourist car.
From Cabin Fever by Bower, B. M.
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