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Definition of Roomette
1. Noun. A small private compartment for one on a sleeping car.
Group relationships: Sleeper, Sleeping Car, Wagon-lit
Derivative terms: Room
Definition of Roomette
1. Noun. (American English) A small private compartment, for one person, in a railroad sleeping car ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Roomette
1. a small room [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Roomette
Literary usage of Roomette
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Canadian Transportation and Distribution Management (1869)
"Canadian Car and Foundry Co., Ltd., has completed delivery to the CNR of 20 duplex
roomette sleeping cars of 24 rooms each, and two 135-ton depressed center ..."
2. The Civil War in Song and Story: 1860-1865 by Frank Moore (1889)
"They reckon they're got us now I To take roomette.by storm ! They're timing !
— it can't be long— Now for the nub of t'te fight ! Only ere how grandly they ..."
3. The Roswell Report: Fact Vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert by Richard L. Weaver (1997)
"Got roomette on Spirit about 530. Galled t-'rs Ewing in NYC. Left "ewar'c or
Spirit of .3t Louis at 620 pm. April Tues. ..."
4. The Debates of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Maryland by Maryland, William Blair Lord (1864)
"Nyman, Pugh, Purnell, roomette, Russell, Sands, Schley, Schlosser, Smith, of
Worcester, Stirling, Stockbridge, Sykes, Thomas, Todd, Wickard, ..."
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