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wagon-lit

noun as in sleeping car

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And the wagon-lit, booked to Syracuse, calmly left stranded in the station of Messina, to go no further.

You've made yourself pretty well at home in this wagon-lit, anyhow, taking off all your clothes and putting on your nightgown.

As The Sparrow lay that night in the wagon-lit he tried to sleep, but the roar and rattle of the train prevented it.

And he produced a batch of tickets, among which I saw coupons for reserved compartments in the wagon-lit.

The carriage was an ordinary "wagon-lit" converted with considerable ingenuity into a Hospital Train.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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