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quiet coaches

quiet coaches is the plural of quiet coach.

Meaning of quiet coach

Noun

quiet coach (plural quiet coaches)

  1. (UK) A rail coach on which unnecessary noise is discouraged.
    • On my way to PBO yesterday, having been ousted from the quiet coach by an announcement *specifically* banning laptop computers, I overheard more than I really wanted to about the BBC's arrangements for co-ordinating documentaries including special items about the war, and later the producer-lady's...2001, Roland Perry, “GNER quiet coach includes laptops”, in uk.railway (Usenet)

Questions about quiet coaches

What is quiet coaches the plural of?
Quiet coaches is the plural of quiet coach.

Words near quiet coaches in the dictionary

  1. quiet as a snowflake
  2. quiet as the grave
  3. quiet carriage
  4. quiet carriages
  5. quiet coach
  6. quiet coaches
  7. quiet coyote
  8. quiet coyote gesture
  9. quiet cracking
  10. quiet down
  11. quiet firing

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