drawing-room car

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The drawing-room car was badly lighted and not heated.

From The Memoirs of Victor Hugo by Hugo, Victor

Saloon, sa-lōōn′, n. a spacious and elegant hall or apartment for the reception of company, for works of art, &c.: a main cabin: a drawing-room car on a railroad: a liquor-shop.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

We had hardly been an hour under way before I saw the two objects of my watchfulness seated side by side in the drawing-room car, apparently on the friendliest terms.

From The International Spy Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War by Upward, Allen

As he reached the drawing-room car he was tempted to abandon the idea.

From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Waterloo, Stanley

Five minutes later I was seated in a palatial drawing-room car bounding up and down quite a good deal on the elastic plush-covered seat.

From Rolling Stones by Henry, O.