[
US
/ˌkuˈʃɛt/
]
NOUN
- a compartment on a European passenger train; contains 4 to 6 berths for sleeping
How To Use couchette In A Sentence
- We sprung for expensive couchette seats, and ended up with our own little cabin on the boat.
- Sleeping on overnight trains is common (though couchettes cost extra).
- The fully loaded walk through five cars to the couchettes was amazing.
- Prices should be around £120-£165pp return for daytime travel, and £165-£200 return for overnight in a six-berth couchette. Pre-season ski news
- If you're in Scandinavia, try booking a sleeping berth - called a "couchette" - on a night train for a reasonable $30 to $50. The Seattle Times
- It has yet to install couchette carriages and, after several failed attempts to fall asleep in their seats, most people head for the on-train bar and drink the night away.
- Once again this entailed another overnight train journey enjoying the couchettes.
- I opted for the three-bed couchette, as opposed to the two, as I'm always slightly paranoid of being alone with someone on the European trains.
- Of course there was the dreaded train ride back despite getting a couchette, I was starting to get sick and threw up twice on the ride but I think I covered almost everything. Archive 2009-02-01
- 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.