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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

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.

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

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