couchette
/kˌuʃˈɛt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.07 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A couch.
noun
A compartment on a passenger train having berths for sleeping.
noun
A berth in such a compartment.
Example Sentences
- "The doctor […] desired they would have the goodness to repose themselves without ceremony, each in his respective couchette, while he and his friend Mr. Pallet would place themselves upright at the ends, that they might have the pleasure of serving those that lay along."
- "But I was disturbed to find a blot on my conception of the ultra-modern S.N.C.F.—the couchette car offered neither hot water nor, unless I looked in the wrong places, an electric razor point."
Etymology
Borrowed from French couchette.