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wagon-lit
[v
noun
plural
wagons-lits(in continental European usage) a railroad sleeping car.
wagon-lit
/ ɡɔ̃ /
noun
a sleeping car on a European railway
a compartment on such a car
Word History and Origins
Origin of wagon-lit1
Word History and Origins
Origin of wagon-lit1
Example Sentences
Soon she would be gone, rattling alone in the wagon-lit without me, and he and I would be together in the dining-room of the hotel, lunching at the same table, planning the future.
"The British have a wagon-lit to ourselves with all possible conveniences: there are several other wagon-lits and a dining saloon," he wrote.
We were traveling in a wagon-lit from Germany to Paris.
And the wagon-lit, booked to Syracuse, calmly left stranded in the station of Messina, to go no further.
Bethune had wired that morning for a wagon-lit, a wise precaution as the train was packed.
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