B1✈️ Travel
Italian word
cuccetta
couchette, bunk (on overnight trains or ferries)
Looks like
couch / couchette
couchette — actually a loanword from Italian/French in English rail travel
⚠️ The trap
English has borrowed 'couchette' from French/Italian. The trap is that English speakers may think 'cuccetta' means a little couch for sitting, when it specifically means a fold-down sleeping berth on night trains.
To say "couchette — actually a loanword from Italian/French in English rail travel" in Italian:
cuccetta
"cuccetta" in English means:
couchette, bunk (on overnight trains or ferries)
Example
"Ho prenotato una cuccetta nel vagone notte."
"I've booked a couchette in the night train carriage."
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