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Definition of Luggage van
1. Noun. A railway car where passengers' bags are carried.
Generic synonyms: Car, Railcar, Railroad Car, Railway Car
Group relationships: Passenger Train
Lexicographical Neighbors of Luggage Van
Literary usage of Luggage van
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1848)
"'nt experiment was made with a train consisting of four passenger. i, three
borie-boxe«, and one luggage van, weighing about ..."
2. Ruling Cases by Irving Browne, Leonard Augustus Jones, James Tower Keen, John Melville Gould (1895)
"We all know that large packages are taken to the luggage van; smaller packages (often
much too large for the comfort of other travellers), are, if requested ..."
3. The Railways of Great Britain and Ireland Practically Described and Illustrated by Francis Whishaw (1842)
"Train, one first-class and one second-class carriage, one mail, one luggage-van,
one gig on truck, one horse-box and one horse, three trucks partly laden ..."
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