| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| wagon-lit |
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| SYLLABICATION: | wa·gon-lit |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  vä gô -l  |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. wa·gons-lits or wa·gon-lits ( vägô-l)
A sleeping car on a European railroad train. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French : wagon, railroad car (from English wagon) + lit, bed (from Old French, from Latin lctus; see legh- in Appendix I).
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