英语词汇“drawing-room car”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

3. A luxurious and spacious carriage or section of a railway train; (North American) the largest and most luxurious private compartment of a Pullman railway carriage, having three berths and a private toilet. Frequently (and earliest) as a modifier, esp. in drawing-room car. Now historical.

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1867 Commerc. & Financial Chron. 14 Sept. 347/2 A new and magnificent sleeping and drawing-room car of the Pullman patent, has been..placed on the Michigan Central road.

1868 C. Dickens Let. 21 Mar. (2002) XII. 80 The Express trains have now a very delightful carriage called a ‘Drawing Room Car’—literally, a series of little private drawing rooms, with sofas and a table in each, opening out of a little corridor.

1931 E. Linklater Juan in Amer. ii. vi. 101 There were many so-called drawing-room compartments on the train.

1936 L. C. Douglas White Banners xviii. 393 Uncle Thomas will still eat, and buy two tickets so he can travel in a Pullman drawing-room.

2011 Star Beacon (Ashtabula, Ohio) (Nexis) 25 Dec. It consisted of two locomotives, the Socrates and Columbia; their tenders..; a smoking car; and drawing-room car.

单词	drawing-room car
释义	> as lemmas drawing-room car 3. A luxurious and spacious carriage or section of a railway train; (North American) the largest and most luxurious private compartment of a Pullman railway carriage, having three berths and a private toilet. Frequently (and earliest) as a modifier, esp. in drawing-room car. Now historical. ΚΠ 1867 Commerc. & Financial Chron. 14 Sept. 347/2 A new and magnificent sleeping and drawing-room car of the Pullman patent, has been..placed on the Michigan Central road. 1868 C. Dickens Let. 21 Mar. (2002) XII. 80 The Express trains have now a very delightful carriage called a ‘Drawing Room Car’—literally, a series of little private drawing rooms, with sofas and a table in each, opening out of a little corridor. 1931 E. Linklater Juan in Amer. ii. vi. 101 There were many so-called drawing-room compartments on the train. 1936 L. C. Douglas White Banners xviii. 393 Uncle Thomas will still eat, and buy two tickets so he can travel in a Pullman drawing-room. 2011 Star Beacon (Ashtabula, Ohio) (Nexis) 25 Dec. It consisted of two locomotives, the Socrates and Columbia; their tenders..; a smoking car; and drawing-room car. extracted from drawing roomn. < as lemmas
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