sleeping car

English

Alternative forms

  • sleeper car

Noun

sleeping car (plural sleeping cars)

  1. (rail transport) A railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.
    • 1939 November, “Pertinent Paragraphs: The Sleeping Car”, in Railway Magazine, page 360:
      In August 1859, eighty years ago, a sleeping car appeared on the Chicago & Alton Railroad of the United States, a great advance on the primitive facilities previously available.

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