Meanings
adjectivefourth-class (not comparable)
- USnot comparableA former class of mail consisting mostly of heavier printed matter.
Was it once stated that fourth class carriages no longer existed? But I have travelled fourth class in Jugoslavia and also on the C.F.A.E. in Algeria on the line from Oran to Colomb Bechar.
1945 July and August, John Gibbons, “Thirty Years of The Railway Magazine”, in Railway Magazine, page 229
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