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excursion steamer
n. A steamboat used to take people on coastal, lake or river pleasure-trips.
Usage examples of "excursion steamer".
About a mile out he killed the motor, and they couldd hear a German waltz thumping brassily over the blue water from the band of an approaching excursion steamer.
She was taken halfway up the Hudson in an excursion steamer fitted out in the archaism of the mad Twenties.