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sleeping car

NOUN
railroad overnight car
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The maids were responsible not only for cleaning the sleeping cars, but also for intimate domestic work such as doing customers’ hair, providing child care and care for older adults and nursing the sick.

From Seattle Times

That said, the prospect of spending the night in a sleeping car understandably raises a number of questions.

From Washington Post

While the Richmond, Virginia, resident was in a sleeping car with a private toilet, he said coach passengers are suffering “a wretched, wretched experience” with cars reeking of overflowing toilets.

From Washington Times

We both got off the train at Grand Junction because he was moving into a sleeping car for the rest of his journey.

From Los Angeles Times

Shortly before the derailment, Zachariah Schneider left Rebecca in the sleeping car and went to sit in the viewing car, where he was “horrifically maimed” and killed, the lawsuit said.

From Seattle Times