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dining car

NOUN
railroad car where meals are served to passengers
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I spent my days and nights napping, seeing fantastic scenery, eating all my meals in the dining car as part of the cost of my roomette, and catching up on my reading.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026

I zipped my bags shut, tipped the roomette attendant and dining car team.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025

The latter comes with three meals a day in the dining car.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

And so Ricky Chatto found himself constructing a complete dining car and sleeper carriage inside Clean Bandit’s studio in Finsbury Park.

From BBC • Aug. 20, 2024

For example, whenever we went to the dining car, all we could do was point to what someone else was eating or to a few incomprehensible words on the menu.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson




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