Meanings of wagon-lit in English

Then in March, the evidence of the wagon-lit conductor reopened the case.

That boat reeked with Moors and cattle, and there was no wagon-lit on the train from Madrid.

It was hot travelling, and I shared my compartment in the wagon-lit with a German gentleman very far advanced in several unaesthetic ailments.

We wouldn't have met Sir Charles if we had waited for a wagon-lit. She bowed her head to the Governor, and he smiled with gratitude.

It is a comfortable train; Russian "wagons-lits" have larger compartments and a samovar is kept on the boil day & night.

"But nobody wants to go to Vladivostok," said Miss Cameron, "or anywhere else in a wagon-lit.

He was nearly an hour behind time when he reached at length the two wagons-lits carriages standing by themselves in a wilderness of tracks.