单词 | restaurant car |
释义 | > as lemmasrestaurant car restaurant car n. chiefly British a dining car on a train. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating place > [noun] > restaurant-car restaurant car1870 wagon-restaurant1910 society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > carriage designed to carry passengers > dining car dining car1838 refreshment car1851 restaurant car1870 dining carriage1879 dining coach1879 buffet-car1887 diner1889 luncheon-car1903 1870 E. P. Hingston Genial Showman 134/2 We would gladly give twenty dollars for a meal in an American restaurant car. 1913 R. Kipling Lett. of Trav. (1920) 220 That terrible restaurant-car dinner in the tunnel. 1967 ‘T. Wells’ What should you know of Dying? x. 118 He's an elevator man at the Winchenden Arms... He's on the restaurant car. 1999 K. Hickman Daughters of Britannia (2000) i. 2 The train had no restaurant car. < as lemmas |
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