fourth class

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Noun

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fourth class (uncountable)

  1. A (former) class of mail in the United States and Canada.
  2. (rail transport) A class of rail travel formerly found in some countries.
    • 1946 May and June, “Notes and News: Russian Coach Colours”, in Railway Magazine, pages 184–185:
      [] Mr. S. C. Hawtrey writes that when he knew the Moscow-Kazan Railway (then under British management) in 1913, it was a regular practice in Russia to paint the exterior of first class coaches blue, second class yellow, third class green, and fourth class, where it still survived, brown.

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