A luggage rack is the shelf above the seats for bags. On a train, it runs the length of the carriage.
Modern trains have shrunk them, which is why the space between seat backs fills with suitcases instead. The rack above a car is a roof rack. There is also the folding rack in a hotel room that a suitcase sits on, which almost nobody uses. Putting anything heavy on an overhead rack is a real hazard on a train that brakes hard.
1nounluggage rackA shelf or frame for holding bags on a vehicle.
“He heaved the case onto the luggage rack.”
Practised in A Man Called Ove, Railways
First appears in chapter 5 of A Man Called Ove.
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