railway wrapper

English

Noun

railway wrapper (plural railway wrappers)

  1. (archaic) A blanket to cover the legs when travelling.
    • 1851, Charles Dickens, “The Uncommerical Traveller”, in Household Words:
      I gave her a spare cloak and shared with her my railway-wrapper, but she seemed to grow paler and paler, and her features to wear a more anxious look as We went on
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