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chair car

NOUN
railroad car containing comfortable reserved seats
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Three of our citizens bought an old railroad baggage and chair car.

From Time Magazine Archive

When a woman complained about the cuspidors in a chair car, Bill Jeffers had them taken off the train.

From Time Magazine Archive

Aboard the midnight train he made Mrs. Adams comfortable in the chair car.

From Jim Waring of Sonora-Town Tang of Life by Knibbs, Henry Herbert

As I sat for the rest of my journey in that chair car my mind reverted to another incident that had occurred two months earlier.

From From Pillar to Post Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-Book by Bangs, John Kendrick

It was a chair car, and the porter had evidently been doing some sweeping, for he held in his hands a dustpan.

From Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South by Hope, Laura Lee




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