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chair car

NOUN
railroad car containing comfortable reserved seats
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When a woman complained about the cuspidors in a chair car, Bill Jeffers had them taken off the train.

From Time Magazine Archive

Three of our citizens bought an old railroad baggage and chair car.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then for hours, in the Pullman chair car, he fidgeted, counting the telegraph posts, checking off the stations as they flipped past the windows, through a day of eagerness, of excited, racking anticipation.

From The White Desert by Fischer, Anton Otto

This road, in common with some of the eastern roads employs chair car porters in addition to the Pullman porters.

From The Life and Adventures of Nat Love Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick" by Love, Nat

There was an ominous number of reservations for Santa Barbara on the chair car.

From Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror by Linthicum, Richard




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