Definition of "sleeping car" []

• A railroad car having accommodations for sleeping. (noun)

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• "Prolonged scrutiny with the tiny Maglite I have learnt to carry when in Eastern Europe reveals our sleeping car is Number 315, and we clamber up the steep iron steps and tumble into our home for the next twenty-four hours clutching a bottle of Mikulovsky Muller Bohemian white wine bought on the platform."
• "Life in a sleeping car is a miniature, tightly organized affair, like caravanning, or sailing."
• "I don't know whether you remember, but in order for me to get pullman or sleeping car arrangements I had to into the "white waiting room.""