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Definition of Dining compartment

1. Noun. A passenger car where food is served in transit.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dining Compartment

Literary usage of Dining compartment

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cassier's Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02877163] (1898)
"The third-class carriage is of the same size and construction as the first- class, but the dining compartment will hold thirty, and the smoking compartment ..."

2. The Modern Railroad by Edward Hungerford (1911)
"To meet these needs smaller cars — generally called cafe-cars — in which the dining-compartment is much reduced in size, have been built and operated. ..."

3. The Car-builder's Dictionary: An Illustrated Vocabulary of Terms which ...by Master Car-Builders' Association, Matthias Nace Forney, Arthur Mellen Wellington, Leander Garey, Calvin A. Smith by Master Car-Builders' Association, Matthias Nace Forney, Arthur Mellen Wellington, Leander Garey, Calvin A. Smith (1906)
"Interior of dining compartment. Café Coach. LS & MS Barney & Smith Car Co., Builders. in Fig. Fig. TOO. Interior of Dining Car. ..."

4. The Land of the North Wind: Or, Travels Among the Laplanders and the Samoyedes by Edward Rae (1875)
"The prefect was by occupation a carpenter, and his tools • hung round the walls of our dining compartment. Two or three worthy natives allowed me to sketch ..."

5. The Land of the North Wind: Or, Travels Among the Laplanders and the Samoyedes by Edward Rae (1875)
"The prefect was by occupation a carpenter, and his tools hung round the walls of our dining compartment. Two or three worthy natives allowed me to sketch ..."

6. The New Internationalism by Harold Bolce (1907)
"In one car the swinging glass door dividing the main dining compartment from the smoking room bore a sign in gilt letters of a big steamship line, ..."

7. Observations in the Orient: The Account of a Journey to Catholic Mission by James Anthony Walsh (1919)
"Finally I went into the dining compartment and called for what looked like a harmless dish. It came, and as I untied the chopsticks I realized that I was ..."

8. With Old Glory in Berlin: The Story of a Young American Girl who Went to by Josephine Therese (1918)
"Since I had not eaten anything at noon, I was famished and ravenous by six o'clock, and I could hardly get Jack into the dining compartment quickly enough. ..."

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