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buffet car
noun
A dining car.
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"The buffet car was a cesspool.
The train's buffet car serves coffee, wine and cakes.
"Then there was a kitchen the size of one on a buffet car," he said.
Both of us are exhausted, and we get a beer from the buffet car.
We wrote silly poems on paper plates we had stolen from the buffet car.
Prime was "sufficiently alarmed" to speak to a buffet car steward, said the judge.
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There are no buffet cars, and train staff are expected to clean up the carriages at each terminus.
But he also said it would be "scandalous" if the SNCF changed its ticket policy and scrapped the buffet cars.
The second thing was its colourful array of limited express trains, which often display a faded European-style grandeur, with wooden panelling and stylish buffet cars.
The trains may have been small – they were distinctly of the clackety-clack variety – but they had excellent buffet cars, like tapas bars on rails, where I spent many a happy hour sipping wine and eating jamon bocadillos.
In May 1980, the buffet cars were withdrawn from the 6B units, which were recoded as 5L, but retaining the Class 203 designation.
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