wagon-lit
Example Sentences
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"The British have a wagon-lit to ourselves with all possible conveniences: there are several other wagon-lits and a dining saloon," he wrote.
From BBC • Nov. 10, 2018
Casual, unobtrusive, the Marquis Panlucci Decaboli, private secretary to Premier Mussolini, boarded a wagon-lit at Rome two months ago, and was whisked toward Spain �ostensibly to visit his father-in-law, the Italian Ambassador at Madrid.
From Time Magazine Archive
In my first-class wagon-lit compartment, the washbasin was dirty.
From Time Magazine Archive
Soon she would be gone, rattling alone in the wagon-lit without me, and he and I would be together in the dining-room of the hotel, lunching at the same table, planning the future.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
I dragged myself back from Christmas at Manderley to the realities of the wagon-lit.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
