单词 | scenicruiser |
释义 | Scenicruisern. Originally and chiefly U.S. A type of luxury coach equipped for touring areas of scenic beauty, typically having large windows and an observation deck, to afford passengers a good view of the surrounding scenery.A proprietary name in the United States.Scenicruisers were manufactured in the 1950s and used by The Greyhound Corporation until the 1970s. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles (plying) for hire > [noun] > hired coach > luxury motor coach Scenicruiser1949 1949 N.Y. Times 10 July x13 (caption) The Scenicruiser, a two-story bus with a glass-covered observation deck, is being tested by Greyhound. 1965 M. Bradbury Stepping Westward viii. 403 They ate fast..and returned to the scenicruiser. 1990 Washington Post 8 July e3/4 The 43-passenger ‘Scenicruiser’ started out almost empty. 2009 Express (Nexis) 1 Sept. 13 The blow-up headrest..was the must-have accessory of the experienced traveller on the silver and blue aluminium Scenicruisers that were as all-American as a Big Mac and a button-down shirt. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1949 |
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