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
“And the first tourist car that you ran empty to the Spur?” inquired Ralph.
From Ralph on the Overland Express The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer by Chapman, Allen
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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