railway wrapper

noun

railway wrapper

noun

1

Archaic A blanket to cover the legs when travelling.

I gave her a spare cloak and shared with her my railway-wrapper, but she seemed to grow paler and paler, and her features to wear a more anxious look as We went on1851, Charles Dickens, “The Uncommerical Traveller”, in Household Words:

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