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Definition of Couchette
1. Noun. A compartment on a European passenger train; contains 4 to 6 berths for sleeping.
Definition of Couchette
1. Noun. A compartment on a passenger train having berths for sleeping. ¹
2. Noun. A berth in such a compartment. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Couchette
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Couchette
Literary usage of Couchette
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. At West Point: A Practical Course in Speaking and Writing French by Charles Fletcher Martin, George Moor Russell (1918)
"... that umbrella belongs to me ce parapluie est à moi bent pp faussé-e berth
couchette /.; upper — couchette du haut; lower — couchette du bas best adj. le ..."
2. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"Cotgrave translates mignon de couchette, "a carpet knight, one that ever loves
to be in women's chambers." See in couchette. ..."
3. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"... at queen Mary's accession. It was also perfectly current as a term of great
contempt. Cotgrave translates mit/non de couchette, " a cat-pet ..."
4. Annual Conference Proceedings of the American Library Association by American Library Association. Conference, American Library Association (1919)
"I occupied a couchette. The couchette is exactly the kind of sleeping-car the
Spartans would have had, if they had had any. In the morning we arrived at the ..."
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