Definition of "wagon-lit" [wagon-lit]

• A sleeping car on a European railroad train. (noun)

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• "The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, 1979 I remember how, that night, I lay awake in my wagon-lit in a tender, delicious ecstasy of excitement, my burning cheek pressed against the impeccable linen of the pillow and the pounding of my heart mimicking that of the great pistons ceaselessly thrusting the train that bore ..."
• "A painter, confirmed bachelor and all-around cuddly Old World teddy bear, Bellack is no match for the Prince of Darkness, who invades his wagon-lit by dark of night..."
• "KORDA arrived by first-class wagon-lit in Vienna in November 1919."