drawing-room car
- noun
- /ˈdrɔɪŋˌrum kɑr/
- Archaic
:
vagón salón
- Travelers paid a higher fare to enjoy the comfort of the drawing-room car.
Examples
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The train featured a luxurious drawing-room car with plush seats and extra amenities.
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She always reserved a seat in the drawing-room car for her business trips.
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The train's drawing-room car was luxurious and spacious.
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We reserved a drawing-room car for our trip to Chicago.
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She always reserved a seat in the drawing-room car for her business trips.
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The train featured a luxurious drawing-room car with plush seats and extra amenities.
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Travelers paid a higher fare to enjoy the comfort of the drawing-room car.
Synonyms
A part of a train with comfortable individual seats for daytime travel that costs extra
A train car that has comfortable separate seats and costs extra
A very comfortable train car with individual seats that costs extra
How Comfortable
35
3.7
- Archaic
- Archaic
- US
1
5.5
75
1.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
drawing-room + car
The meaning is compositionally derived from 'drawing-room' (a sitting/reception room) + 'car' (railroad vehicle), so a learner who knows both constituents can infer a rail carriage with sitting-room style accommodations for comfortable travel. This follows a regular noun+noun compounding pattern common across languages, making the sense immediately predictable rather than idiomatic.
Etymology
The noun drawing-room car comes from the idea of a train car fitted like a house drawing-room, with soft chairs and space to sit as if you were in a living room. Because it felt like a private sitting room, passengers paid more for this 'extra comfort', so today the term means a comfortable passenger car for day travel.