buffet car

English

a buffet car in India in 2007

a buffet car in Britain in 1944

Noun

buffet car (plural buffet cars)

2. (rail transport) A railway carriage in which food and drink can be bought at a counter, and either taken to another carriage or consumed at the seating provided.

   Hypernyms: railroad car, railcar, car, carriage < rolling stock < vehicle

   Coordinate terms: dining car, diner, restaurant car; private car

   Near-synonyms: refreshment car, club car (broadly synonymous)

   • 1934 February, B. K. Cooper, “Some Great Central Reflections”, in Railway Magazine, page 83:

     A small ornamental panel displayed the Great Central's slogan, "Each Express is Vestibuled and has a Buffet Car attached." The buffet car is now being successfully exploited again by the L.N.E.R., but it is only last May that this facility returned to its parent line after a long absence.

References

• “buffet car”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.