Meaning of fourth class | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A (former) class of mail in the United States and Canada.
   uncountable
2. A class of rail travel formerly found in some countries.
   uncountable

Examples

“[…] Mr. S. C. Hawtrey writes that when he knew the Moscow-Kazan Railway (then under British management) in 1913, it was a regular practice in Russia to paint the exterior of first class coaches blue, second class yellow, third class green, and fourth class, where it still survived, brown.”

“[…] up in front the third and fourth class passengers were making a babel of noise as they either detrained or entrained together with their large families and strange collection of parcels, bundles and earthenware jars.”

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