tourist car

noun

1. a railroad sleeping car, usually having seats that can be converted into berths.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tourist car¹

An Americanism dating back to 1890–95

Example Sentences

Its main sources of income - tourist car parks, docking fees and the sale of marine fuel at its harbours - have been reduced to "zero overnight" as a result of the pandemic, Highland Council said.

From BBC

The region's main sources of income - tourist car parks, docking fees and the sale of marine fuel at all of its 100 harbours - have been reduced to "zero overnight" as a result of the pandemic.

From BBC

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 Literature

To reach the customs bay inside the line of control where the truck was first pulled over, we drive across five or so check points where members of the Indian army, secured with AK-47s, check our paperwork and sniff through the interior of our vehicle, a tourist car, manned by a driver hired for the day out of Srinagar, the summer capital of Kashmir.

From Slate

The sight of the card recalled a startling fact to Ralph: at the depot end of track 7 lay the occupied tourist car of an Uncle Tom's Cabin theatrical troupe which was then visiting Stanley Junction.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• carriage
• taxi
• taxicab