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
From the tourist car park, it is a 20-minute hike to the crater.
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
He came running to the spot with his arms full of packages, apparently some supplies for the tourist car which he had just purchased of some store on Railroad Street.
From Ralph on the Overland Express The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer by Allen Chapman
“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 Allen Chapman
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