luggage rack

English

Noun

luggage rack (plural luggage racks)

1. A rack attached to a car or other vehicle, used to hold luggage or similar items.

   Hyponym: roof rack

   • 1950 February, W. Dendy, “Impressions of the Indian Railways—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 120:

     Third-class carriages are grossly overcrowded, with passengers lying on the luggage racks, standing between the benches, and occasionally even riding on the footboards and clinging to the outsides of the coaches for short distances.

   • 1963 March, “The Clacton express electric multiple-units enter service”, in Modern Railways, page 173:

     […] and the neat reading lamps on the underside of the luggage racks, under passenger control, are an attractive feature of the first class compartments.

   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 73:

     Above each seat was 'an ormolu luggage rack with finely chased ornamentation and panels of brass treillage'.

   • 2015, Jim Loomis, All Aboard: The Complete North American Train Travel Guide, Chicago Review Press, →ISBN, page 150:

     As do the coaches, these sleeping cars have a large luggage rack located on the lower level of the car where you enter.

   • 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 77:

     Many seats carry reservation labels, while the luggage racks are festooned with backpacks and suitcases.

Translations

rack attached to a vehicle

• Catalan: baca (ca) f, portaequipatge m
• Finnish: tavarateline (fi), tarakka (fi) (on bicycle), kattoteline (roof rack)
• French: please add this translation if you can
• German: Gepäckträger (de) m, (public transport) Gepäckablage (de) f
• Hungarian: poggyásztartó (hu)
• Italian: portapacchi m
• Persian: باربند (fa) (bâr-band)
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: бага́жник (ru) m (bagážnik) (на кры́ше автомоби́ля)
• Spanish: portaequipaje (es) m, maletero (es) m, parrilla (es) f (Latin America), baca (es) f (Spain), portaequipajes (es) m

Gallery

roof luggage rack on a 1964 Rambler Classic 770 wagon

front and rear luggage racks on a bicycle

luggage rack on a tube train