Synonyms for wagon-lit


Grammar : Noun
Spell : French va-gawn-lee
Phonetic Transcription : French va gɔ̃ˈli


Définition of wagon-lit

  • As in sleeping car : noun railroad overnight car
Example sentences :
  • Every wagon-lit in Berlin had been commandeered by the staff.
  • Extract from : « The Day of Wrath » by Louis Tracy
  • They stood at the door of their wagon-lit in the Côte d'Azur Rapide, searching the crowded platform for him.
  • Extract from : « Swirling Waters » by Max Rittenberg
  • I hope the wagon-lit proved a compensation for your temporary effacement, laughed Stuart.
  • Extract from : « Twos and Threes » by G. B. Stern
  • Just fancy, Stuart burst forth, the indignity of having to ask permission before one could keep a fox-terrier or a wagon-lit.
  • Extract from : « Twos and Threes » by G. B. Stern
  • From the window of the wagon-lit Mrs. Shiffney looked at the two men standing together as the train drew away from the platform.
  • Extract from : « The Way of Ambition » by Robert Hichens
  • And the wagon-lit, booked to Syracuse, calmly left stranded in the station of Messina, to go no further.
  • Extract from : « Sea and Sardinia » by D. H. Lawrence
  • The windows of the wagon-lit were plastered with warnings to be careful, to talk to no strangers; that the enemy was listening.
  • Extract from : « With the French in France and Salonika » by Richard Harding Davis
  • You've made yourself pretty well at home in this wagon-lit, anyhow, taking off all your clothes and putting on your nightgown.
  • Extract from : « The Motor Maid » by Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson
  • As The Sparrow lay that night in the wagon-lit he tried to sleep, but the roar and rattle of the train prevented it.
  • Extract from : « Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo » by William Le Queux
  • And he produced a batch of tickets, among which I saw coupons for reserved compartments in the wagon-lit.
  • Extract from : « The Golden Face » by William Le Queux

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