| 单词 | sleeping saloon |
| 释义 | > as lemmassleeping saloon b. In full saloon car or carriage: A railway carriage without compartments, furnished more or less luxuriously as a drawing-room or for a specific purpose, as dining saloon, sleeping saloon. Also (U.S.) ‘the main room of a compartment-car or a small subdivision of a sleeping-car’ ( Funk's Stand. Dict.). ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > carriage designed to carry passengers > other types of passenger carriage caravan1821 private car1826 Jim Crow car1835 ladies' car1841 saloon car or carriage1842 palace car1844 ladies' carriage1847 parliamentary carriage1849 parlour car1859 composite carriage1868 Pullman1869 observation car1872 first1873 compo1878 bogie carriage1880 chair-car1880 club car1893 corridor carriage1893 tourist-car1895 birdcage1900 dog box1905 corridor coach1911 vista-dome1945 Stolypin1970 1842 Illustr. London News 18 June 89/1 Previous to the departure from Paddington, the Royal Saloon, the fittings of which are upon a most elegant..scale, were tastefully improved by bouquets. 1850 C. Schreiber Jrnl. 17 June (1950) 243 We had a saloon carriage. 1855 D. K. Clark Railway Machinery 275/1 Saloon carriages may..be planned variously... The business public appear generally to prefer the ordinary partitioned carriage. 1859 First Impressions New World 214 There were four of these [state rooms], besides a general saloon in the middle; but the whole was greatly inferior to the elegance of Mr. Tyson's car on the Baltimore and Ohio Railway. 1886 St. James's Gaz. 16 Oct. 6/2 He stepped lightly from the saloon-car. 1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 247/1 Saloon carriages are occasionally used, so called because two or more of the ordinary compartments are merged in one. 1891 Harper's Mag. Mar. 581/1 The car at the head of the New York and Chicago Limited was divided..; the two small apartments ‘amidships’, so to speak, were arranged, one as a bath room, and the other as a barber~shop; and then came the more spacious saloon reserved for the smokers. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 19 Sept. 6/2 In the rear of the express was..the saloon in which the distinguished travellers were making their journey... They travelled..to Aberdeen in an ordinary sleeping saloon. < as lemmas |
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