wagon-lit
(in continental European usage) a railroad sleeping car.
Origin of wagon-lit
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How to use wagon-lit in a sentence
And the wagon-lit, booked to Syracuse, calmly left stranded in the station of Messina, to go no further.
Sea and Sardinia | D. H. LawrenceYou've made yourself pretty well at home in this wagon-lit, anyhow, taking off all your clothes and putting on your nightgown.
The Motor Maid | Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris WilliamsonAs The Sparrow lay that night in the wagon-lit he tried to sleep, but the roar and rattle of the train prevented it.
Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo | William Le QueuxAnd he produced a batch of tickets, among which I saw coupons for reserved compartments in the wagon-lit.
The Golden Face | William Le QueuxThe carriage was an ordinary "wagon-lit" converted with considerable ingenuity into a Hospital Train.
"Contemptible" | "Casualty"
British Dictionary definitions for wagon-lit
/ (French vaɡɔ̃li) /
a sleeping car on a European railway
a compartment on such a car
Origin of wagon-lit
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