drawing-room car

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It was quite gaily that she took her seat beside him in the drawing-room car of the train and impatiently awaited the first sight of the salt meadows before Jersey City is reached.

From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James

There the express trains have now a very delightful carriage called a "drawing-room car," literally a series of little private drawing-rooms, with sofas and a table in each, opening out of a little corridor.

From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 by Dickens, Mamie

We learn that the company have put a new engine on the seven o'clock train, and newly upholstered the drawing-room car throughout.

From The Gilded Age, Part 4. by Warner, Charles Dudley

That lady met her at the door of the drawing-room car, and led her to the little compartment where they were screened off from the rest of the world.

From Nobody by Warner, Susan

Dining-room, sleeping car, drawing-room car, smoking-room, library, bath-room, lavatory, the whole fitted up in the most luxurious style.

From Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society by Allyn, Jack