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parlor car

NOUN
eating car in train
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Or is it the soft, steady voice of the stranger in the train’s parlor car, telling a story to the boy’s father?

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2015

Today Branford ranks as the second largest trolley trove in the country, is stocked with 75 cars, ranging from a John Stephenson horsecar, vintage 1893, to a wicker-chaired private parlor car in mint condition.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a parlor car on the same train, rode New York's bald, kindly Governor Herbert Lehman, glad to be unnoticed.

From Time Magazine Archive

It also collects all revenues from sleeping and parlor car ticket sales.

From Time Magazine Archive

We had ridden to Philadelphia in reserved parlor car seats.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey




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