nounplural noun wagons-lits/ˌvaɡäNˈlē/ /ˌvæɡɑ̃ˈli/ /ˌvaɡänˈlē/ /ˌvæɡɑnˈli/

• A sleeping car on a European railroad.

  ‘The Gravy Train is the story of Philip Bushill-Matthews's journey to Brussels on a PR wagon-lit.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘At Belgrade I was left looking after the luggage while my husband went off to organize a couchette or wagon-lit for the rest of the journey.’
  • ‘A railroad car - the wagon-lit in which a German delegation signed the WWI armistice on November 11, 1918, and in which a French delegation signed the surrender of France to the Third Reich on June 21, 1940.’