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单词 wagon-lit
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wagon-lit

/ˌvaɡɒ̃ˈliː /
noun (plural wagons-lits pronounced same)
A sleeping car on a continental railway.The Gravy Train is the story of Philip Bushill-Matthews's journey to Brussels on a PR wagon-lit....
  • At Belgrade I was left looking after the luggage while my husband went off to organize a couchette or wagon-lit for the rest of the journey.
  • A railroad car - the wagon-lit in which a German delegation signed the WWI armistice on November 11, 1918, and in which a French delegation signed the surrender of France to the Third Reich on June 21, 1940.

Origin

French, from wagon 'railway coach' + lit 'bed'.

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