tourist car
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tourist car
An Americanism dating back to 1890–95
Example Sentences
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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
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From the tourist car park, it is a 20-minute hike to the crater.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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 Sheldon, Charles Monroe
Harahan, of the Illinois Central Railroad, provided the Pullman tourist car in which Mr. Washington and his party toured the State.
From Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization by Scott, Emmett J. (Emmett Jay)
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