Meaning of couchette | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A couch.
   rare
2. A compartment on a passenger train having berths for sleeping.
3. A berth in such a compartment.

Equivalents

Examples

“The doctor […] desired they would have⟳ the goodness to repose themselves without ceremony, each in his respective couchette, while he and his friend Mr. Pallet would place⟳ themselves upright at the ends, that they might have⟳ the pleasure of serving those that lay⟳ along.”

“But I was disturbed to find⟳ a blot on my conception of the ultra-modern S.N.C.F.—the couchette car offered neither hot water nor, unless I looked in the wrong places, an electric razor point⟳.”

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